Hi, Win XP probably went into power-saving hibernation. Try checking Control Panel -> Power Options & make sure "Always on" is selected. BTW,
MS is going to stop shipping security patches for XP in the forsee-able future. I'd make sure that licensing, security, EOL (End Of Life) & support was well understood for any Windows, XP or otherwise. Of course, that applies to any applications & OS, etc but Windows is definitely the 800 lb gorilla in many spaces. sincerely, Marhn Fullmer Manager, COE Networking Laboratories NCSU Computer Science Dept On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Peter Dimitrios <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]
