Windows 11 VM boots up stuck

Incus
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lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Release: 12
Codename: bookworm
➜ ~ uname -a
Linux debian 6.1.0-22-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.94-1 (2024-06-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux
➜ ~ incus version
Client version: 6.4
Server version: 6.4

illustrate：
The installed Windows11 VM will freeze for a while, thinking that it is a problem with the wrong installation method, and it is the same after repeated installations
The installation method is this tutorial

Now the problem that arises is that the boot card is changed on the uploaded picture.

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Can you give the list of your installation commands?
Also, do you assign specific continuous CPU cores to the VM?

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Sometimes it’s the Hyper-V CPU flags on certain CPUs… try adding
raw.qemu: -cpu host
to the instance config and see if it boots.

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incus init win11vm --empty --vm
incus config device override win11vm root size=55GiB
incus config set win11vm limits.cpu=4 limits.memory=6GiB
incus config device add win11vm vtpm tpm path=/dev/tpm0
incus config set win11vm raw.qemu – “-device intel-hda -device hda-duplex -audio spice”
incus config device add win11vm install disk source=/home/fanfan/Download/Win11_23H2_Chinese_Simplified_x64v2.incus.iso boot.priority=10
incus start win11vm --console=vga

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See How to run a Windows virtual machine on Incus on Linux – Mi blog lah! about CPU pinning. That is, you specify explicitly which cores should be allocated to the VM. I am not sure if limits.cpu=4 is as good as CPU pinning (it’s a Qemu task). If that does not work, try -cpu host as mentioned by @mratt or in my post. The -cpu host is kind off a last resort option.