connection between podman-machine and windows is closing unexpectedly

[mukul-tyagi]

Hi,

While running my test cases the connection between the podman machine and windows is closed in between tests execution.

I am running my junits which is using testcontainers library as well to execute tests which uses containers. Below is the stages of execution of test cases

• Initial Execution: Podman works as expected, and containers are created and managed successfully.
• Mid-Execution: After a certain number of tests, Podman starts exhibiting unresponsive behavior.
• Container Inaccessibility: Containers created during the test execution become unreachable.
• Podman Commands Fail: Commands like podman ps -a fail with the error: Cannot connect to Podman. Please verify your connection to the Linux system usingpodman system connection list, or trypodman machine initandpodman machine startto manage a new Linux VM. Error: unable to connect to Podman socket: failed to connect: ssh: handshake failed: read tcp 127.0.0.1:58815->127.0.0.1:58563: wsarecv: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.

Test Failures: Test cases that rely on containers fail due to the inability to connect to the containers.
Additional Information:

NOTE:- It works fine with docker on winows or podman on ubuntu

System Setup: Windows 11, Podman 5.3.1, Testcontainers 1.20.3