Windows 10 computer waking up from sleep

sleepvirtualboxwindows 10

According to powercfg –lastwake my computer woke up from sleep for the following reason:

Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
  Wake Source Count - 1
  Wake Source [0]
    Type: Wake Timer
    Owner: [PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume4\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxSVC.exe

According to https://windowsreport.com/windows-8-windows-10-wakes-sleep-fix/, if I click on the Power Management tab I can uncheck "Allow this device to wake the computer" to prevent the device from waking my computer up again.

Only problem: I don't have that tab!:

Enter image description here

Some of my network adapters have it (my physical network adapters), but not the one that woke my computer up.

Any ideas?

Best Answer

This is a known VirtualBox bug: Ticket #18549 : Windows host wakes from standby mode constantly.

The bug was marked as fixed about 5 months ago, so should be included in the latest version VirtualBox 6.0.14, released October 15 2019. (Actually it should have already been in some release even sooner than that.)

I suggest refreshing your VirtualBox version. If the problem is not fixed, you could ask to re-open that bug-report, and use Albin's solution in the meantime (although it might be a bit too strong).

Related Question