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Prevent Standby with Active Guest
Posted: 9. Mar 2017, 05:16
by 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.
Re: Prevent Standby with Active Guest
Posted: 9. Mar 2017, 14:48
by 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.
Re: Prevent Standby with Active Guest
Posted: 10. Mar 2017, 00:19
by cweinhofer
Re: Prevent Standby with Active Guest
Posted: 12. Mar 2017, 00:07
by 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?
Re: Prevent Standby with Active Guest
Posted: 12. Mar 2017, 00:17
by Perryg
Not that we would know here. You can always post an enhancement ticket at
bugtracker
Re: Prevent Standby with Active Guest
Posted: 12. Mar 2017, 00:20
by 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.