The M/B is ASUS PRIME Z690-P D4  with 64G RAM. Video is from the motherboard.

I tried numerous attempts at creating the VM accepting the defaults, at times exceeding them.

I specify the location of the ISO and VMWare identifies that it is a Windows 11 installation disk.

When I start the VM the ISO file is not load.

I'll uninstall VMWare and reinstall it again.  I'll post screen shots.  I'll post the log.

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I mentioned that I transferred a running VM (Windows 10) from an old computer and even this didn't load.