How to keep Solaris 10 Guest OS Alive?

[ms99]

I have Virtualbox 4.1.18 installed and running on my Mac Mini running Solaris 10 as the guest OS.

I set MacOSX on the Mini to never sleep and it appears to stay alive all the time. At least it will answer pings any time I hit it.

However, it appears the Solaris guest OS goes to sleep after a short period of inactivity and it will not wake up unless I go to the Mini and shake the mouse or hit a key on keyboard.

Not sure if the host MacOS is going to sleep and wakes up but VBox is not able to wake Solaris up.

I created a script under MacOS that pings the VBox Solaris instance every 5 minutes, however that does not appear to do the trick.

Any idea on VBox or MacOSX settings that would help?


Thanks,

Mike

[ChipMcK]

Have you adjusted the Guest's power management settings to not sleep?
Best of Luck

[ms99]

Disabled the power service in the Solaris 10 guest OS and that appears to have done the trick.

Thanks for the tip!