Downsides to using a teamed adapter within a vm?

ns33

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Logically, a teamed adapter makes sense in a physical system, but in a virtual one, I can't figure out what the benefit is. I have a specific software package, I have no control over source code wise, which currently resides on a physical system that's highly depends on a teamed interface. It programmatically checks for it. Overall this is fine and I've created those within a windows vm.

My question is, what downsides, from an I/O side, might a virtual team adapter have? Each member is tied to its own virtio nic, which are in turn tied to a vnet -> zone -> vmbr -> bonded physical nics. It's definitely another software layer to worry about, but I'm more so interested in how it might affect the host level network stack, if at all.