One of the other tasks I wanted to get out of the way last week or so was redoing my Virtual Machines library, which I use for tutorials. I wanted to upgrade my aging Windows 10 install to the most current version but also add a Ubuntu Server 24.4LTS and a Windows 11 installation.
This should have been a simple task; updating the Windows 10 server took a long time, but installing the ubuntu took less than 20 mins, in including setup and ssh, but I just couldn’t get windows 11 to install it would get part way through and crash at first I thought this was a resource issue so upped the cores and ram and it still failed to complete, I was stuck in a reboot cycle of getting so far and rebooting and starting again.
With that in mind, I did some googling and read about lots of issues with the same thing, and they all pointed to one thing: the new NVME hard disk type was the cause. So I remade the VM with a SATA-based drive and tried again, and this time, it completed.
So if you run into this issue, you now know to try a SATA drive rather than an NVME in the settings in VMWare.
