if you managed to install ubuntu or any distros, then, turn onn screen reader. or if you can't, just press alt+ctrl+t to open terminal in your vm. then, type in some commands

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

sudo ufw allow ssh

when ever you wan't to know what's going on, if you turned on screen reader, then great. if you can't, then use OCR of nvda and check what's going on

also, you need your IP address to connect by ssh

type in the following in your linux terminal on vm

ip route

then, do nvda OCR. here i recommend OCR if you have a screen reader in linux because you can copy the IP address to clipboard

you will find a text called src some where in thatresult. after that src, you will have some desimal number containing some numbers. copy that to your clipboard

then, download putty from http://putty.org

open the executable and paste in the IP address in your putty host name or IP address field. then leave every thing as default and click open. you w ill get a warning. simply click yes and enter your user name in login as and password in password field. then you will get a terminal. you can happyly use nvda here.

hope this helps