Guest NIC connection status mapped to physical NIC

[carlospapaiz]

I'd like to know if there is any way to map a guest NIC to a physical host NIC so when a cable is physically unplugged from the host my guest knows it.

[weinstein5]

No there is not since the networking portion is virtualized by the vmkernel -

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[Troy_Clavell]

your guests are attached to vSwitches which are attached to pNICs. So, if you only have 1 pNIC mapped to a vSwitch, your guest will definatly know if it goes down.

[RDPetruska · Accepted solution]

The newest version of Workstation has this feature, but ESX does not yet have it.