xci: scripts: start-new-vm.sh: Do not break on idle SSH connections

Add ServerAliveInterval and ServerAliveCountMax directives in order
to try and keep SSH connections alive. This aims to solve ssh timeouts
like the following one on busy hypervisors:

packet_write_wait: Connection to UNKNOWN port 0: Broken pipe

Change-Id: I58029b41226098d6a44181434ad8653f72384e9d
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <mchandras@suse.de>

diff --git a/xci/scripts/vm/start-new-vm.sh b/xci/scripts/vm/start-new-vm.sh
index 1019ce8..faadb87 100755 (executable)
--- a/xci/scripts/vm/start-new-vm.sh
+++ b/xci/scripts/vm/start-new-vm.sh
@@ -187,6 +187,8 @@ echo "Dropping a minimal .ssh/config file"
 cat > $HOME/.ssh/config<<EOF
 Host *
 StrictHostKeyChecking no
+ServerAliveInterval 60
+ServerAliveCountMax 5
 IdentityFile ${BASE_PATH}/xci/scripts/vm/id_rsa_for_dib
 
 Host *_xci_vm