Is it possible to differentiate between the traffic produced by each guest machine?
Yes. With a hypervisor, the majority of the virtual machine’s hardware requests (including those used for networking) are serviced directly by the server’s hardware rather than being serviced by the host operating system. This means that a virtual machine’s dynamic MAC address is actually used in communications on the physical network and can be used to identify traffic produced by the virtual machine. The virtual machine’s IP address can also be used as an identifier.
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