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Interesting discussion -- but isn't the system behaving "As designed" -- a shielded VM shouldn't be "exportable" etc by any of the "usual methods"
The best way though IMO to test all these things is to do them all entirely from "External Virtual HDD's" --Not VM's but physical Virtual hard drives, boot from them and do all this VM testing -- the VHDX's on "Physical boot" behave identically to "Local hard drive Windows" installations. Then if the whole thing gets hosed up just delete / re-initialize the external HDD. !!! Using SDD with USB3 / 3.1->SATA connector still yields comparable performance to internal HDD / SSD.
Sorry if not a solution to the problem --but IMO a vastly superior way of testing and if it all goes pear shaped just re-initialize the external device.
For creating Physical Windows Systems on external devices using "Boot from Physical Virtual hard drives" - note NOT VM's - these are 100% Windows installations with physical OS and hardware - 100% equivalent to a Windows installation oh main internal HDD :
ISO from SysPrep-ed Image not bootable from external disk... | Windows 11 Forum
Cheers
jimbo