Hyper-V Audio Support

Would VB audio cable help you? You can route audio through that, as opposed to using your internal sound card for stuff. But maybe you wouldn't be able to use it with a server or something. The link is here.
https://vb-audio.com/Cable/

The website isn't very accessible, but just hit G to move through the images on the page to get to the 'VB-Audio Virtual Audio Cable' section.

You can already do that on laptops running windows, or is that not what you're talking about?

Also the accessibility when it comes to the feedback hub isn't the best, links, you can't seam to read comments unless you mes around with NVDA and the numbpad thing, I forget what it's called at the moment.

For some reason I can't open the link, it says I don't have a file or program asociated with the app.

You have to be a member of the Windows insider program it seems. I think it's an early access thing? I tried to open the link when signed into my Microsoft account, it said my account isn't allowed to access it or something.Unless I'm very much mistaken, Chris is referring to some sort of system where you connect to a remote server, so someone else's computer or network, and you can get speech while on that server. Sorry Chris if I've misunderstood.

I see.

I'm not a part of the insider program, i've not needed it so far.

Tara, yes, this is for remote server management. And yes, it is a very frustrating problem. I tried to set up a vps once for my online radio station, and ran in to this. Ended up cancelling the service after a few days because I just couldn’t get it up, running and stable.

Hi Justin,
Sorry to hear you couldn't get your server up and running. Maybe Chris' feedback to Microsoft will help with this issue.

That you're the only one using it or wanting to use it at the moment.

Hi Chris,
I looked into the Windows Insider program, and it looks a bit long-winded to be honest. I know I wouldn't have to download stuff, but I don't want to get emails about new stuff I probably wouldn't be interested in trying. And according to the terms and conditions etc. that's what would happen. Have you tried asking on audiogames.net on the off topic room forum? There are developers and stuff there who probably know about virtual machines etc. That's probably one of the best places to ask if you want to find people with similar knowledge and requirements to yours. There are a couple of not very active subreddits for blind users interested in cyber security and programming. I don't know what they're called, but I read about them on the /r/Blind sub. I wouldn't recommend that particular sub for asking tech questions, you usually get the minimal amount of answers there. What about Facebook groups or telegram channels? Maybe you've tried all these avenues already. And have you ever tried Remote Incident Manager (RIM) from Pneuma Solutions?
https://pneumasolutions.com/products/rim/
You have to subscribe to it, but I'm wondering if you could do something with that. I heard about it on the Double Tap podcast. Pneuma solutions seems to have a few things for remote stuff. Sorry I can't be of more help.

@Brad, No this would be an absolute game changer for any of us in the IT field or just wanting to learn linux without the need to dabble with VMware, virtualbox or some other online virtual machine. I ran into this problem just trying to set up the windows subsystem for Linux, apparently there are workarounds but they require sighted assistance which obviously isn't always available. Not only that but they require sighted assistance from a fairly advanced computer user, even harder to come by. This is a massive problem, I'll be adding my vote to the mix.

Been a while so I can't remember if Hyper-V has USB pass-through. If it did, then of course you have the option of using USB audio hardware until you can get enhanced session mode up and running.

But I agree that it's an ugly oversight, especially now that ESXI is no longer freely available. Realistically this is the only option available now, unless you're happy to put up with the limitations of Workstation like requiring a UI, not being able to easily start up VMs with the system and no support for memory ballooning. So it would be great for Windows users to get this.

It's for servers, so of course you'd never need audio except through a remote client Windows RDP session. Right? Right?

But it's very unfortunate. Really the only other option I can think of is scripting the guest install with an answer file to enable RDP. Either that or use Workstation to prep the VM before transferring it to Hyper-V. But neither option is realistically available for common situations like using existing VMs or cloud provider images. This is what happens when blind people are out of the loop. Such a shame ESXI is basically over.