Fizz Khalifa Posted June 11, 2017 Share #1 Posted June 11, 2017 Hello, I'm planning to use Virtual Machine Manager on my XPenology System (latest version). But as far as I know you have to have 2 network interfaces. Is that true? And no way around that? I'm using a consumer motherboard with only one ethernet interface. I don't really get why you need that second ethernet interface to run virtual machines. Does VMM not have support for a network bridge? I hope someone who is already running this can clarify that for me. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBark Posted June 12, 2017 Share #2 Posted June 12, 2017 Yeah, as far as I can tell, it requires the 2nd interface, since it binds one NIC for management traffic (clustering), and the other NICs are for VM traffic. I don't think there's any reason why they couldn't do it all on 1 NIC, but requiring at least two means they can guarantee that VM traffic won't affect cluster traffic (and access to DSM itself), and vice versa. Would be kinda nice if they had an option to disable clustering, so you could run in single host mode, but I think this is designed mainly for the SMB side of things, and they probably want to get rid of as many points of failure as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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