Installing Windows 11 in a VM stops a boot manager (SOLVED: Bad iso?)

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After setting up a vm with a Win 11 iso image the following is shown immediately after pressing the space bar for boot from DVD selection:

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Is I’m starting from the iso I wonder what boot manager is being located and fails.

Oh and yes the CPU parameters do meet Windows 11 demands.

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If the bios for you hypervisor is not presenting a TPM2 device to windows 11 then windows will not boot.

What hypervisor are you using? KVM/QEMU, or VirtualBox, or ?
When installing using virt manager (VMM) you have the option to tell it to use the bios with TPM which then should allow windows to boot.

This screen shows the option for customization which then allows for selecting the bios with TPM

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Clicking the firmware line in this image then allows to select the appropriate bios image.

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Forgot this Operating System: Fedora Linux 44
KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.30.0
Qt Version: 6.11.2
Kernel Version: 7.2.8-200.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 24 × AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 w/ Radeon 890M
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (11.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 890M Graphics

It is my first computer witha Ryzen chip and I don’t know it that is causing this. On other intel F44 I have no problems.

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An other iso boots with:

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You may also need to add a tpm device.

I would suggest to read the entire guide.

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Thanks to all. This is silly it seems the two iso images I tried were probably corrupted when copying to this new machine. I checked the sizes i bytes and it all checked out but during copying apparently some bit flipped or (SELinux) tagging was messed.

I downloaded a fresh copy (maybe it was a systemic Ryzen problem) and could boot from it to setup.