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Workaround for ssh timeouts on vmwarevsphere #4512
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This is a hacky workaround for an issue me and others seem to have with not being able to connect via docker-machine to our vsphere machines. I didn't find relevant discussions about the underlying issue or possible fixes. I hope to get the ball rolling.
I'm using the vmwarevsphere driver, and since I added a second stack to docker, I was no longer able to connect to boot2docker via docker-machine (direct ssh and the docker images worked fine).
To get a static IP, we have to apply a dirty startup-script (via bootsync.sh), which kills udhcpc and applies a static ip. This is probably the root of all evil here.
Since the second stack however, vmware seems to no longer report about the ipv4 adresses on the network - only ipv6, which made the GetSSHHostname-call timeout.
Adding a second network card via vsphere (eth1, which by the way boot2docker complains about and seems to expect, even on a fresh install) again gets me a dynamic IP, which I can then use to ssh via docker-machine - but without aforementioned workaround still times out.
We should probably find out, why
Thanks!