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“Beep… beeep… beeeep…” such an annoying sound that always happen in VMware Workstation(I’m currently running 6.5.1) Linux and Windows guests machine.

I would like to share How to disable or turn off beep speaker sound on VMware Workstation.

1. Look for virtual machine DOT VMX(.vmx) file.
2. Edit virtual machine .vmx file.
3. Insert

“mks.noBeep = “TRUE””

4. Save .vmx file.
5. Power On virtual machine.

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Recently I run some stress test on our VMware farm due to the prove of concept we try on some new products and I have some finding would like to share.

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Gabesvirtualworld posted Prevent your LUNs running out of space remind me about my VMFS LUNs space. Personally I don’t agreed about create a dummy vmdk on each LUN. Why? Arnim, you still have to wake up at 3am if received any calls. Just a joke!

Have a look here:
VMware ESX VMFS LUNs Report.

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As many of the users who used the previous version of the VMware Server, there were no shortcuts on your desktop which provide direct access to the VM console without logging into the web console.On VMware Server 2.0, you will have the flexibility of doing this which is placing a shortcut on your desktop and allow you to log in to the VM console directly.

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I have a OpenSuSE 11 running on my laptop VMware Workstation 6.5.1 recently. During VMware Tools installation, I found a weird error show as below:

“The following VMware kernel modules have been found on your system that were not installed by the VMware Installer. Please remove them then run this installer again.”

vmblock
vmhgfs
vmmemctl
vmxnet

Execution aborted.

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