Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???> wrote:

> My personal favourite is bridged mode, which has only an one-time setup
> cost, and makes guest VMs operate exactly same as if they were physically
> separate machines plugged into your ethernet switch next to the host.
> As a bonus, that setup cost is shared with lxc, which is also happy in
> such a bridged configuration.

And also the default for Xen, which as you say "just works".
It's also REALLY easy to have multiple bridges for multiple networks.

AIUI you can also use Open Vswitch and have VLAN support etc to the guests, but it's not something I've ever used.