Prevent Standby with Active Guest

[cweinhofer]

I am running VB 5.1.14 on Linux Mint 18.0

The system is set to go into standby after 30 minutes of inactivity. However, I would like to set it so it DOESN'T go into standby if there is an active VB guest running.

How would I do this?

Appreciate any help. I tried searching the net but just keep coming up with people who are trying to solve the problem of VB preventing standby, whereas I WANT that behavior.

[Perryg]

You will need to ask the Mint folks about this. VBox does not have a configuration that would allow or prevent standby that I know of.

[cweinhofer]

It's now posted over there:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic. ... 8&t=241289

[cweinhofer]

The Mint admins responded that there is nothing currently to do this, but that it was theoretically possible "if the running VM could send a message (via D-Bus) to the host (like some media-players)".

Has VB ever considered this as a feature?

[Perryg]

Not that we would know here. You can always post an enhancement ticket at bugtracker

[socratis]

For those that won't visit the Mint forums, the complete reply was:

Sorry, not possible. This would only be possible, if the running VM would send a message (via D-Bus) to the host, like some media-players can do this. I can imagine, that Oracle does not want to do this, because it would be a potential security risk. Depending from your unknown host desktop environment there might be an option to easily turn the energy management temporarily to off.