{"id":1040,"date":"2016-05-30T15:53:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T04:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2016-05-30T15:53:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T04:53:04","slug":"watch-those-default-power-saving-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"Watch those default power saving settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re using a KDE-based Linux distro inside a VirtualBox VM keep an eye on the default energy saving settings as you can get caught out with an unusable system that needs to be shutdown, possibly losing data.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1042\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/vps_power_settings.png\" alt=\"KDE power settings can be disabled when run as a virtual machine\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/vps_power_settings.png 600w, https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/vps_power_settings-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KDE power settings can be disabled when run as a virtual machine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The &#8220;on battery&#8221; power profile will trigger a suspend state after a number of minutes of inactivity. That&#8217;s fine if you&#8217;re on a laptop, but inside a VM you get a blank screen not receptive to any input &#8211; not good.<\/p>\n<p>I just disabled the events and use the VM manager&#8217;s pause feature when I want to disable the guest OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re using a KDE-based Linux distro inside a VirtualBox VM keep an eye on the default energy saving settings as you can get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,35,37],"tags":[141,175,176,65],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kde","category-tips-tricks","category-virtualization","tag-kde-2","tag-power-management","tag-virtualbox","tag-virtualisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}