Please see the ticket Kernels built since 2024.10.05 unable to start a graphical session in VMware Workstation · Issue #9707 · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub
In short, this setup won’t work. Still, maybe an alternative hypervisor would be just fine for your case?
You could write, what the goal is, for instance just testing out the Qubes OS workflow without a bare-metal installation, and if you’re OK with installing other hypervisors, like KVM or VirtualBox. Then, it’s a matter of providing instructions on how to workaround certain issues. I wrote a guide for that some time ago, here.
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