bhyve Move VMs from vmswitch to vether0?

[kalleboy]

Hi all, today I've learned and been reading about VETHER(4). Virtual ethernet interface on FreeBSD, wanted to try it for my VMs networking, activated it as such;

pkg install -y net/vether-kmod
kldload if_vether
ifconfig vether0 create
ifconfig vether0 10.0.0.1/24 up


My VMs currently are networking through vm-vmswitch with a set of private IP block; 192.168.2.1/29 (PF - NAT involved);

# vm switch list
NAME      TYPE      IFACE        ADDRESS         PRIVATE  MTU  VLAN  PORTS
vmswitch  standard  vm-vmswitch  192.168.2.1/29  no       -    -     -

My question is;
Is it possible to not use any virtual switch at all, but create a vether0 on the host, and assign it private IPs and aliases (thinking each alias IP would be for each VM of mine), and make VMs communicate with each other&host machine through vether0 and its IP aliases?

My vether is as follows;

vether0: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=28<VLAN_MTU,JUMBO_MTU>
        ether 02:2f:d4:1a:0a:dd
        inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
        inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
        groups: vether
        media: Ethernet autoselect
        status: active
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

In order to try these all above, on my OpenBSD VM, I;
Added in its conf file: network0_device="vether0"
Started it, defined it's static IP as; 10.0.0.2 (vether0 alias), and gateway as 10.0.0.1 (vether0 IP).

That didn't work. Any clue?

Regards.