Guest-influenced packet transmission

A computing system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory comprising machine readable instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the system to:
• run a hypervisor;
• with the hypervisor, receive a plurality of packets for transmission to a destination, each of the plurality of packets comprising a queue identifier, wherein each packet's queue identifier is assigned by a virtual machine based on a load balancing function;
• and
• transmit each of the plurality of packets over a different transmission queue to the destination based on different queue identifiers associated with each packet.

A method performed by a virtual machine running on a physical computing system, the method comprising:

• sending to a hypervisor, a first packet for transmission to a destination, the first packet including a first queue identifier assigned by the virtual machine based on a load balancing function, the first queue identifier indicating on which of a plurality of transmission queues the hypervisor is to transmit the first packet;
• and
• sending to the hypervisor, a second packet for transmission to the destination, the second packet including a second queue identifier assigned by the virtual machine based on the load balancing function, the second queue identifier indicating on which of a plurality of transmission queues the hypervisor is to transmit the second packet, the second packet to be transmitted to the destination on a different transmission queue than the first packet, the second queue identifier associated with a second transmission device;
• and
• transmitting the first packet over one of the plurality of transmission queues to the destination based on the first queue identifier.