We're seeing a problem with some Windows XP VMs...they are preloaded and active to VMWare ESXi 4.1, but after about 4 hours VCL can no longer ssh into them, and so VCL won't use them to serve reservations faster. So far, it looks like something in Windows or VMware is closing down all the ports after some period of idleness. We were suspecting Windows Firewall, Windows Update or antivirus software kicking in, but so far that doesn't seem to be the cause.
We have brought up the same image independent of VCL in another VM, and it hasn't had the same issue, so we're wondering if some of the post load scripts for WinXP might be setting something to cause this "idle image lockout" . Anyone have some breadcrumbs for resolving this kind of issue? Could the problem be with some default settings for Cygwin sshd under WinXP that VCL isn't overriding? -Peter Dimitrios, [email protected]
