Local Shuts Down When Battery Reaches 4%

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Working on my MacBook Pro, I noticed that Local will shutdown when the battery reaches 4% or less. The blue “start machines” button shows up and I have to restart everything.

Any idea why this is happening and/or if it’s possible to stop it?

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This is the default behavior for how VirtualBox handles VMs. It saves the state of the VM and then suspends it.

Here’s a StackExchange thread if you wish to change that behavior. Please note: you may risk data loss if the VM is halted unexpectedly by your battery dying.

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It sounds like it’s best to just leave it alone, or run the risk of losing data. Nice to understand why it’s happening though. Thank, Clay!

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I just had this happen here, and while I fully understand and support the reason VB is shutting down, I was a bit surprised that Local’s UI did not reflect the shutdown – I found out it wasn’t running when I tried to stop all sites (since I could not connect to one).

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@philby, I agree. It took me a while to figure out where the problem was exactly.

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