Disable sound?

[MR ZenWiz]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> 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...?
>
I use VB at work to run Xubuntu (they have a thing about "company
laptops must run Windows" here in the US).  When I leave the sound on
and use it, it invariably hangs the VM.  There's a VB machine setting
to disable the sound.  I use that and no problems.

Well, unless I *want* sound, in which case I have to use the host.

HTH,
MR