Install Cisco Modelling Lab on vmware within windows vm on Truenas Scale

I have a windows 11 VM installed on TNS bare metal and works fine.
I now want to install Cisco Modelling Lab vm either directly on TNS or within the Windows 11 vm. One requirement is that I need to access CML from anywhere.
I have tried installing directly on TNS but the image is an OVA and I believe that TNS does not support this?
So I tried installing the CML vm on vmware in Win vm. It installs fine but when I try to launch I get the following error appear:
VMware Workstation and Hyper-V are not compatible. Remove the Hyper-V role from the system before running VMware Workstation.
I then checked Win features and both Win Hypervisor Platform and Virtual Machine Platform are unchecked.
I then checked the Win vm settings on TNS and unchecked Enable Hyper-V Enlightenments and saved. I assume this is what vmware is referring to?
When trying to launching Win vm and it just hangs on boot.

Any ideas?

Ryzen 4500 6 core
Gigabyte A520I AC (limited to 4 on board sata connections)
16 Gig DDR4
x4 3TB WD Red
X1 250GB SSD (for OS)
X1 250GB m.2 (for cache, I had to dedicate a drive during initial setup, reading online at the time it was recommended to utilise the m.2 slot).
X1 asmedia a+e key to sata controller.
X1 Blu-ray optical drive

The WD reds are attached to onboard data controller.
m.2 attached to MB
SSD (OS) and optical drive attached to a+e key sata controller.

OH!

  • CML is only fully supported when running on Intel processors. While the CML application services run equally well on systems with Intel or AMD processors, some of the bundled reference platform VM images only run on Intel processors. Support for running CML on non-Intel processors will be provided on a best effort basis.