JNode on VMWare sometimes hangs while starting network drivers (?)

Project:JNode Core
Component:Code
Category:bug report
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active
Description

About one time in four, JNode is getting stuck in the bootstrap sequence. When it hangs, the last message on the console is "INFO [JIFSPlugin]: Mounted JIFS on jifs". If it doesn't hang, the next message will be "INFO [NetDeviceMonitor]: Configuring loopback".

This suggests to me that the hang is network related.

The problem is occuring when running JNode from VMWare, which I have configured with "Host-only" ethernet. If I then reset or power off/on the JNode VM, it usually boots correctly ... but not always.