ESXi vSwitch - dot1Q - GNS3 EtherSwitch

Its a lab setup. As am running out of ethernet ports, ESXi is spining on  the VMware workstation 15.

The VMware workstation vmnets are in e1000.

Am trying to connect to the ESXi vswitch uplink (vmnic) to a etherswitch in the GNS3.

Am unable to establish a dot1Q trunk  between ESXi vSWITCH and the Etherswitch.

I appreciate if someone throw light on this issue.

I noticed a similar case here vSwitch not tagging traffic but not sure still it could associate with vmWare workstation.

Thanks,