After the Mac goes to sleep the vm powers off?

[russell11]

Hey,

I'm on OSX 10.15.7 and running the trial version of VMware Fusion 12.1.1.  Things work great, but as soon as the laptop goes to sleep the machine powers off. 

I would like to have the machine either suspend or not be powered off.  But i can't figure out how to change the behaviour.

I tried looking in syslog and could find that linux isn't notified about power state changes, so I think the VM is crashing, or being hard powered off by vmware.

Any suggestions for how i should go about debugging this?

[wila]

Hi,

Are you passing the power state of the host to the VM?

You can check this via the menu, with the VM selected go to -> Virtual Machine -> Settings -> Advanced

Then see if the "Pass power status to this vm" check is checked.

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Wil

[russell11]

No i'm not,  should i be?

I disabled it yesterday after hunting through the menus looking for anything power related.

[wila]

If you want the VM to act on these type of things then I would suggest to have this checked.

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Wil

[russell11]

Ah ok, so i'm assuming then that when the laptop goes to sleep that VMware powers off all vms?

[wila]

Hi,

No I don't think so, I always have my VM's running when the host goes to sleep.
Never any issues and they just continue running.

When I'm on battery, the VM's will suspend automatically after I don't use them for a while.

Setting this checkbox will let your VM decide on what to do.

I expect it to be macOS to be closing all apps when sleeping, but I'm unsure as to what to change at your host. Sorry.

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Wil

[russell11]

OK, so that is exactly what is was looking for.  So since this isn't normal behaviour i went looking around for logs.  I have attached the last bit of them, 

And it looks like when the keyboards are being detected, that vmware crashes.  I'll have to investigate further, but at least i now know where to start looking.

The keyboards i have are: Ergodox running QMK Firmware, and i'm also using Karabiner-Elements to help improve the bindings when editing text.  So I guess i should start trying to remove some of these and see if it makes a difference.

2021-04-21T18:12:08.113+02:00| vmx| I005: VNET: MACVNetLinkStateTimerHandler: 'ethernet0' state from 1 to 5.
2021-04-21T18:12:13.273+02:00| mks| I005: SWBWindow: Number of MKSWindows changed: 1 rendering MKSWindow(s) of total 1.
2021-04-21T18:12:13+02:00[+2.574]| keyboard| W003: Caught signal 11 -- tid 2224494 (addr 107556A14)
2021-04-21T18:12:13+02:00[+2.574]| keyboard| I005: SIGNAL: rip 0x7fff6b55a9c6 rsp 0x700009363de0 rbp 0x700009363de0
2021-04-21T18:12:13+02:00[+2.574]| keyboard| I005: SIGNAL: rax 0x107556a14 rbx 0x7ff0b887f1a8 rcx 0x0 rdx 0x1 rsi 0x7ff0b887f1a8 rdi 0x107556a14
2021-04-21T18:12:13+02:00[+2.574]| keyboard| I005:         r8 0x0 r9 0x0 r10 0x10b56ed58 r11 0xffff80104ecd786c r12 0x107556a14 r13 0x0 r14 0x107556a00 r15 0x1
2021-04-21T18:12:13+02:00[+2.574]| keyboard| I005: SIGNAL: stack 700009363DE0 : 0x0000700009363e20 0x00007fff34205d9b
2021-04-21T18:12:13+02:00[+2.574]| keyboard| I005: SIGNAL: stack 700009363DF0 : 0x0000000000001a00 0x0000000107555000
2021-04-21T18:12:13+02:00[+2.574]| keyboard| I005: SIGNAL: stack 700009363E00 : 0x00007ff09f42c190 0x00007ff0b88582a0
2021-04-21T18:12:13+02:00[+2.574]| keyboard| I005: SIGNAL: stack 700009363E10 : 0x0000000000010000 0x00007ff09f61b550
2021-04-21T18:12:13+02:00[+2.574]| keyboard| I005: SIGNAL: stack 700009363E20 : 0x0000700009363e70 0x000000010b5644b4
2021-04-21T18:12:13+02:00[+2.574]| keyboard| I005: SIGNAL: stack 700009363E30 : 0x00007ff0b887f170 0x000000006b51ad7a
2021-04-21T18:12:13+02:00[+2.574]| keyboard| I005: SIGNAL: stack 700009363E40 : 0x00007ff0b88874e0 0x00007fff6a1af800
2021-04-21T18:12:13+02:00[+2.574]| keyboard| I005: SIGNAL: stack 700009363E50 : 0x0000000000000000 0x00007ff0b887f0e0
2021-04-21T18:12:13+02:00[+2.574]| keyboard| I005: Backtrace:

[wila]

Hi,

Ahh.. good catch, I completely forgot about that issue.

This is a problem that sometimes shows up when VMware Fusion's new keyboard logic tries to sync the keyboard LED lights...

See the workaround as provided by Darius here:

Re: Problem when host (Mac) is going to sleep

edit: updated the link as it no longer went straight to the correct reply (forum software was changed since then)

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Wil