I'm not disagreeing, just curious as to how you thought pandoc was installed on the virtual machine. it's installed on your computer but the virtual machine doesn't have access to that directly so that means you currently do not have pandoc installed.
I'm trying it on my own machine now and will let you know if I get it working, if not I'll have to email some so I'll get back to you if I get it working. Otherwise it means I couldn't get it working.
Regardless, feel free to add it to the SASware Ballot Ideas (under Find a Community) so that they can officially roll out those features rather than a hacked solution :). They do listen and add features as they're asked for though this shouldn't be an issue in a full production version of SAS.