Sunday, November 10, 2013

How to Enable Virtual Sound Card in a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Machine

I've been experimenting with Microsoft’s Hyper-V more and more lately. One early frustration is the apparent lack for virtual audio support in your virtual machines. In my case, Windows 8. 

Here are the steps that worked for me:

1. From the host Windows Server 2008 R2 machine, type ‘remote’ in the Search Programs and Files box:

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2. Double-click the ‘Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration’ entry.

3. Right-click on the remote desktop connection (the default is RDP-Tcp) and choose properties:

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4. Select ‘Client settings’ and remove the checkmark next to both ‘Audio and video playback’ options (to not disable these features):

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5. Click Apply and then click OK to close the page.

6. Log-off the virtual machine. Now login to your virtual machine using RDP to see the changes applied to the system:


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