When deploying a Windows XP image, esx.pm fails before windows finishes starting up. Timing the log to the VM, the code reaches "TRY 25" and throws a failure right before it enters in the windows license. However, networking doesn't start until after this portion, so it will never get an IP address. It took our Windows VM ~3-4 min to get the networking up.
2009-04-10 22:34:30|24857|178:45|new|esx.pm:load(381)|going to sleep 5 seconds, waiting for computer to DHCP. Try 1 Changing esx.pm to sleep for 30 (originally 5) fixed this issue and it continued on to the SSH portion. -- Melba Lopez milo...@gmail.com