@Technogeezer Thank you for the kind reply.  Your advice, wisdom and humor, are appreciated.  Anyone who runs configurations that are not officially supported should understand they are in uncharted territory.  And don't come whining if/when things surprisingly break. Honestly, I am amazed that any VM's work on any machines, ever, due the complexity of modern software.  In my recent posts, I was just trying to report that this one maverick who understands the risks has been able to run Windows 11 for some time with no issues.  Yet.