VMware Workstation : Disable Beep In Virtual Machines

Every time an error show up in Windows, a message like : “at least one service didn’t start”, or a command is not existent in Linux, VMware virtual machine will play a loud and noisy Beep sound; This may be embarrassing if you are in a meeting or a presentation.
In a previous post I talked about How to Disable chars/letters repetition in virtual machines, it is as much annoying as having the pc or laptop screaming for an unknown command or a disabled service. So, what you should do is adding a noBeep parameter to your workstation installation’s configuration file.

The file to update is :

%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\config.ini

for windows versions of VMware workstation, and :

~/.vmware/config

for Linux one.

The parameter you have to add is :

mks.noBeep = “TRUE”

Please note:

• The configuration file is “profile” dependent; so if you update it for your profile, other ones in the same computer won’t have it configured.
• You have to stop/close all Vmware Workstation running instances.
• You may need to restart the “VMware Autorization Service“
• You may not find the config or config.ini files, so just edit a new file.
• Under Linux, a file or folder for which the name starts with a Dot is hidden, to be able to see it you have to issue an “ls -a” to display it.

Hope this was helpful.