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This assumes the laptop would need to act as a router. If the VMs are going to get dynamic addresses from the network, why not have them act as clients on the

This assumes the laptop would need to act as a router. If the VMs are going to get dynamic addresses from the network, why not have them act as clients on the parent network? Why have the laptop act as a router with prefix delegation? And if they have static addresses like labs often do, NAT will already need to happen.

zrm 2y ago
> And if they have static addresses like labs often do, NAT will already need to happen. Only if the static addresses also need to be static global addresses, which, if you were to use NAT for network portability, they wouldn't be anyway. So what you end up with instead is two addresses on each machine: Static ULAs for internal use, SLAAC/DHCPv6 from the parent network for dynamic global addresses, and no NAT.
orev 2y ago
In private “host only” VM networks, the hosts do act as routers, DNS, and DHCP servers. In those networks you do not want the VMs getting addresses from the parent network, you want them contained in the laptop.