Hello,

I have a fairly strange use-case scenario (for me) and I'm struggling to understand what's the best approach to use. Therefore I'm not sure if the subject is precise.

Basically, we have a home lab where few independent hypervisors virtualise bunch of virtual machines. All hypervisors connect through the same wireless SSID managed by a Chateau router. Hence they connect to the same network, let's say 192.168.88.0/24.

The objective is to have some virtual machines, among all the others, to be restricted in the same VLAN. Problem is we can't have another SSID, as we're forced to use a specific one on the hypervisor side. VMs can be bridged to the same wireless interface of the hypervisor, hence be in the same 192.168.88.0/24 network segment, but the objective here is to allow them only to talk each other, eventually a new VM can be deployed and act as their router. Ideally they should have another IP-range.

The challenge here, for me, is that the VMs are running in different hypervisors.

I know it sounds a bit odd but it's like an experiment and I'd like to know what my possibilities are. I was thinking on a MAC based VLAN, but I have no experience at all with this solution. I just want to be sure on what topic is best to spend time on.

Any ideas on how to approach this situation?

Many thanks!

hello

challenge here, for me, is that the VMs are running in different hypervisors.

hmm, how many hypervisor host connected to this ap? 1 host with multiple hypervisors? or different machine for each hypervisor?

do you mean: you want to interconnect vm's under those hypervisors in other vlan than that hypervisor vlan?

yes, you're right. you need to have a router vm first for each hypervisor. after that your vm's can have their own lan.

Apologies, I should have made clear: we have different hosts running different hypervisors virtualising different VMs. All hypervisors connect to the same AP hence share the same network segment.

Some of the VMs should be able to talk each other, ideally ONLY to each other.