I have observed that test hangs when executing on tomcat 6 remote container.

My arquillian.xml looks like below. ( I don't use authentication for jmx)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<arquillian xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian
http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian/arquillian_1_0.xsd">

<group qualifier="Grid" default="true">

<defaultProtocol type="Servlet 3.0" />

<container qualifier="remote-tomcat1" default="true">
<configuration>

<property name="httpPort">1776</property>
<property name="host">localhost</property>
<property name="jmxPort">8090</property>

</configuration>
</container>

</group>
</arquillian>

The test do stops with an error when the server is down or wrong HTTP port is specified. It does execute @deployment method of the test but never comes to execute the test method annoted with test.todd