In the hope that this catches the eye of someone on the development team…
The latest KDE ISO 21.1 RC2 (manjaro-kde-21.1-210723-linux513.iso) has a bug where it gets stuck during boot in a MHWD script in a VMWare Virtual Machine.
I know VMWare is an unsupported platform, but just in case it has an easy solution, because RC1 (manjaro-kde-21.1-stable-staging-minimal-210720-linux513.iso) works fine in the same virtual machine.
There is a workaround.
At the ISO Grub menu - edit the default entry and add the number three (3) to the kernel command line.
Then login as manjaro:manjaro and run startx
Thanks. Yeah, I suppose there are workarounds, but also I suppose this is the kind of thing that should work by default 
It is not that a need to boot that ISO. It’s just I noticed the problem and I am trying to file a bug report 
We had an issue with VirtualBox config, which hopefully is solved by now. However, we have to see about VMWare once more, which uses the same config.
At least, when I tested on Virtualbox everything went fine.
This was finally handled here: KDE ISO 21.1 RC 2 gets stuck on boot (VMWare VM) · Issue #12 · manjaro/release-review · GitHub
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