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Need help stopping VMWare Workstation from suspending guest OS after idling for some time

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It's most likely your guest OS that requests sleep mode and does it. Did you check that?

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The title pretty much says it all. I want VMWare to stop the guest OS from suspending it if I leave it unattended for some time. Some suggestions I saw online were to set the power options in my host PC to never automatically go to sleep or the display to turn off. I have done both these things and stopped the PC from sleeping and turning display off for power saving but still no luck. I also tried adding these codes: suspend.disabled = “True” and suspend.disabled = “1”  in the vmx file of the vm and restarted VMware. This didnt work too. If u know of anyway to achieve this please do let me know. Thanks. 

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It's most likely your guest OS that requests sleep mode and does it. Did you check that?

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On 7/31/2020 at 1:53 PM, Nick7 said:

It's most likely your guest OS that requests sleep mode and does it. Did you check that?

Mate, I think that was the issue. It didnt come to my mind at all to check that. Thanks for the suggestion. 

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