Turning off the PC speaker for all virtual machines

Products

• VMware Desktop Hypervisor

Issue/Introduction

When I was installing the operating system in a guest from a bootable floppy disk, the PC speaker beeped continuously and the system would not accept keyboard input. How can I turn off the PC speaker?

Environment

VMware Workstation 11.x (for Linux)
VMware Workstation 9.x (Windows)
VMware Player 4.x (Linux)
VMware Workstation Player 12.x (Linux)
VMware Workstation 6.x (Linux)
VMware Player 4.x (Windows)
VMware Workstation Player 14.x (Linux)
VMware Workstation 8.x (Windows)
VMware Player 3.x (Linux)
VMware Player 5.x (Windows)
VMware Workstation 8.x (Linux)
VMware Workstation Player 12.x (Windows)
VMware Player 6.x (Windows)
VMware Workstation Pro 14.x (for Windows)
VMware Workstation 11.x (for Windows)
VMware Workstation 9.x (Linux)
VMware Workstation Pro 14.x (for Linux)
VMware Workstation 5.x (Linux)
VMware Workstation Player 14.x (Windows)
VMware Player 6.x (Linux)
VMware Workstation 10.x (Windows)
VMware Player 5.x (Linux)
VMware Player 7.x (Windows)
VMware Workstation 6.x (Windows)
VMware Workstation Pro 12.x (Windows)
VMware Player Pro 7.x (Linux)
VMware Workstation 7.x (Windows)
VMware Workstation Pro 12.x (Linux)
VMware Workstation 10.x (Linux)
VMware Workstation 7.x (Linux)
VMware Workstation 5.x (Windows)
VMware Player Pro 7.x (Windows)
VMware Player 3.x (Windows )
VMware Player 7.x (Linux)

Resolution

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

Note: Close Workstation before editing the global configuration file.

mks.noBeep = "TRUE"

Find the global configuration file at:

• Linux hosts:
  
  ~/.vmware/config
   
• Windows 2000 and XP hosts:
  
  C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware_Product\config.ini
   
• Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2008 Server R2, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012 hosts:
  
  C:\ProgramData\VMWare\VMware_Product\config.ini

If the file does not exist, create a new text file and add the mks.noBeep line to it. For more information, see Creating and editing config.ini on Windows hosts.