Disable sound?

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:40:01 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Hey, all.  Is there a good way to entirely disable sound?  I'm running 
> Ubuntu in a VM, and, for reasons I haven't entirely discerned (and don't 
> have time to troubleshoot) Chrome + sound + HDMI-at-home = bad news.  
> V-e-r-y slow response, etc., etc.  (Firefox works fine, but I'm already 
> settled into Chrome.)  As it's running in a VM, I'm more than happy to 
> use the host OS to do audio (a Mac).
> 
> So, anyway: maybe blacklist the audio kernel modules?  Or...?

What sort of VM system are you using? (VMWare, VirtualBox, KVM, something 
else?) Depending on the VM system, one *should* be able to simply not have any 
sort of "sound card"...  This basically sould have much the same effect as 
blacklisting the sound subsystem, since the audio modules won't load if there 
isn't anything to connect to.

Otherwise I don't know.  I don't use the "console" of any of my VM -- I only 
connect via slogin and only use X11 over a SSH tunnel ("graphics" only, no 
audio functionallity possible that way -- totally fine by me).

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Ken
> 

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