I am having the same issue and am also running on vmware. Whats your ISP / what hardware do you have in your comp? Maybe we have something that is causing this issue to happen (also running the same plugins / profile).
The only thing we have in common is the profile / plugins we use, and that we run on VMware, I have a different ISP, and different hardware. (i5 2500k, 560 TI, 16GDDR3)
hey so i was messing around with vmware and went to settings for my network adapter. the setting for NAT: used to share the host's IP address was checked. i figure might as well try a different option so i tried out the bridged: connected directly to the physical machine. i was able to run a full act 3 farm profile without DB disconnecting. It was also alot faster logging into DB then it has been. After that 1st clear without a disconnect i changed it back to NAT option and i lost connection to DB in about 20 minutes. Going now on a 3rd run with the bridge option again. If it goes all the way thru i guess this is a fix?
nvm, got the same error shortly after post. it's getting pretty annoying at this point, Just purchased this yesterday and so far its pretty disappointing...