According to the Microsoft Docs, sharing an audio device from a Ubuntu Guest to a Windows host using XRDP is relatively trivial and in fact enabled by default.
I have set up a Ubuntu 22.04 VM using the Hyper-V Quick Create tool, and keeping all the defaults. I verified that I was in "Enhanced Session" mode. I also verified that the settings were identical to the below screenshot as shown in one of the links above:
I log in to the Guest VM using XRDP. When I play a Youtube video, I hear nothing. I checked the VM settings and all I see is "Dummy Output".
I've seen some blog pages and answers on here which propose all manner of workarounds and hacks:
- https://www.nakivo.com/blog/install-ubuntu-20-04-on-hyper-v-with-enhanced-session/
- https://techbloggingfool.com/2020/12/26/deploy-a-linux-vm-on-hyper-v-with-sound-20-04-edition/
- No Sound on Ubuntu in Hyper-V
But these answers are hardly satisfactory, since the audio output should be configured using XRDP and by default according to the official docs.
Either the Windows Docs are incorrect (highly unlikely in my opinion), or I am overlooking some critical setting here. Which one is it?
