Clean Installation of HiddenVM + Whonix Cause Audio to Not Work on Reboot

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Host: Tails 4.20
Guest: Whonix 15.0.1.9.3
Appliance: HiddenVM v1.15
Virtualization: default (doesn't matter from my tests)
Audio Device: AC97 (default)
Host Audio: Alsa

Variables:
Each reinstall I ran: apt update && dist-upgrade before closing

Host:
Standard sound card in use.
Didn't have a problem until post tails update.
Previous versions worked just fine.
Audio device is current and plays speaker-test as well as settings front left/front right.

Guest:
Playing media from VLC or speaker-test results in erie sound due to dropping audio every other interval.
OpenBSD sndio option in VLC preference->audio fixed the audio dropping on VLC restart.
After reboot no amount of debugging or settings manipulation or restarting or anything provides audio (including messing around with VLC settings).
No audio through alsa or pulse.

Research:
gstreamer-plugins-good recently updated and someone complained recently about their KVM qemu setup being negatively affected.
Common front-page resolutions and regenerating the config file doesn't work.
Whonix recommends virtualbox 6.1.22 https://www.whonix.org/wiki/VirtualBox/XFCE .
HiddenVM gives virtualbox 6.1.26.

HiddenVM.log

2021-08-01 07:06:06+00:00 [HiddenVM] [bootstrap.sh] Configure clearnet user, prog-id=16
No protocol specified
E: [pulseaudio] client-conf-x11.c: xcb_connection_has_error() returned true

I have discovered that by restarting the whole computer one or many times, or maybe it's opening whonix workstation FIRST before gateway, it eventually works. Not ideal.

If you need any logs or anything specific please feel free to ask.