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From: Banibrata Dutta <banibrata.dutta@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 23:13:18 +0530
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Subject: Any low power, auto standby type capability on Alpine ?
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Currently for development purposes I use a Lubuntu VM running inside
Virtualbox of a Windows host. I realized that if I do not have the VM
running, then my battery lasts for about 8 hours with light usage of WiFi.
However with VM running, this drops down to about 3 hours.

I had been thinking of shifting my development work onto Alpine (mostly
Golang development, rather learning) running it as a headless VM in
Virtualbox. However, wondering if there are specific configurations that
allows Alpine go into power conservation mode ?

Of course, I realize that there is also the hypervisor side of the story,
i.e. does the hypervisor have powersaving mechanism, say when the headless
VM is just running in the background with perhaps extremely low CPU usage.

Thanks in anticipation to any inputs or pointers in this regard.

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Currently for development purposes I use a Lubuntu VM runn=
ing inside Virtualbox of a Windows host. I realized that if I do not have t=
he VM running, then my battery lasts for about 8 hours with light usage of =
WiFi. However with VM running, this drops down to about 3 hours.<div><br></=
div><div>I had been thinking of shifting my development work onto Alpine (m=
ostly Golang development, rather learning) running it as a headless VM in V=
irtualbox. However, wondering if there are specific configurations that all=
ows Alpine go into power conservation mode ?</div><div><br></div><div>Of co=
urse, I realize that there=C2=A0is also the hypervisor side of the story, i=
.e. does the hypervisor have powersaving=C2=A0mechanism, say when the headl=
ess VM is just running in the background with perhaps extremely low CPU usa=
ge.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in anticipation to any inputs or pointe=
rs in this regard.</div></div>

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