Has anyone had reliable success creating a VM from an ISO? I've been trying over and over to get something like Ubuntu desktop (both 22.04 and 20.04). I either get "starting" or on the off chance that it does start and I can go through the setup phase, it can't find the disk after the install and reboot. I've tried using the template and creating the VM from scratch.

I've not had any issues in the past though lately I've been creating VMs from disk images rather than install using ISOs. I have just finished a test install using Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop ISO using ISO template and it installed & booted ok.

11 hours "starting"

I note you're using Harvester 1.0.1 whereas I'm still on 1.0.0. I don't see a cloudinitdisk but then I don't see any errors for my test VM in Events. I think the FailedMount is for PVC 2004-test3-rootdisk - if you

ssh rancher@<harvester_vip_address>

sudo su -

kubectl get pvc | grep 2004-test3

does it include rootdisk?

yes. rootdisk was there