Stop VM suspending after inacitivy

[Evelyn W]

I’m trying to time a long process in the virtual machine, but it keeps suspending after ~5 minutes of inactivity. Can I change this?

Google suggests deselecting “Report battery information to guest” but it’s already not selected

Thanks 🙂

[Simon]

Are you sure it is actually suspending and not just locking the screen?

Try running this simple process in the terminal that will let you see if the screen is locked (and still running) or actually suspended:

while true; do date; sleep 5; done

Wait 5 minutes to let the screen lock. Unlock it. If the machine had suspended, you will see a gap in the times printed. For me, this shows that the machine keeps running when the screen is locked.

You can change the time before the screen locks, if you like.

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