Turning off the beep

[dave_english]

Yesterday I had to use VMware Player 2 with my laptop on the train. I always have the laptop loudspeaker turned off to avoid annoying other passengers.

The trouble is that while sound was off, the machine beep still sounded.

I have had this problem before & then fixed it, by I think adding:

mks.noBeep = "TRUE"

to the .vmx file. This time it did not work.

Now, having found the old thread:

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?forumID=19&threadID=6287&messageID=42362

I added it to my "Application Data\VMware\preference.ini" file. & that works!

Note that the entry does have to be the same:

mks.noBeep = "TRUE"

despite every other setting in there being prefixed by "pref.".

Regards

[seapahn]

Thanks for this! I couldn't find a config.ini and putting it in the .vmx file didn't work on version 6 as other instructions have mentioned.

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seapahn

[dave_english]

Glad it helped

[rxaviers]

Thanks a lot.

I added it after the last line of: /etc/vmware/config and it worked fine. For christ sake, no more anoying beep. Thanks again.

Rafael Xavier de Souza.

[dave_english]

Independent of VMware, I have just found another may of annoying fellow travelers with the beep: just typing some binary file by mistake in a command window. Just doing "echo ^{G" where "}G" is a Control-G is enough to demonstrate it.

I have found the solution is to stop the Windows beep driver with "net stop beep".

Regards

[ataylor_80918]

You can also disable the system beep through Windows Device Manager.

Right click My Computer>>Properties

Select the Hardware tab, click Device Manager

Go to View>>Show Hidden Devices

Expand out Non Plug and Play Drivers, right click on Beep and select Disable

[CornelKleynhans]

Hi Gyus,

What you can also do is on the VM machine just type net stop beep and your beep is someting of the past!!!!!

Cheers

Cornel

[jason_anderson]

Why don't you stop the beep? do you realize that when someone is wearing earphones, you send 140db of sound into their brain with your f*cking beep?

it is so god damn pointless.

[jason_anderson]

Vmware

your beep could easily damage someone's hearing if they are wearing earphones. you need to make the following item default in your software. Neglecting to do so will say a lot about how much you care for the safety of your customers.

Who is going to miss this? It is VERY dissappointing that you have not fixed this yet.

To disable the speaker emulation for all virtual machines, add the following line to Workstation's global configuration file:

mks.noBeep = "TRUE"The global configuration file should exist in ~/.vmware/config on a Linux host, and \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Workstation\config.ini on a Windows host.

If the file does not exist, create a new text file and add the

mks.noBeep line to it. Also see "Creating and Editing config.ini" (for

Windows hosts) at .

[Jasminl]

Disabling beep would get my vote for nicest new feature!

Btw your solution works guys, it solves one of my main annoyances since I started using VMware years ago..

Thanks!

[rygetz]

thank you!! I was trying it in the .vmx file and it was not working. I often have headphones plugged in and the beep is extremely loud.