Thanks for sharing — this is expected behavior with the Hyper-V deployment of IEM-V.
During the registration of Industrial Edge Management with the Industrial Edge Hub, the VM performs internal network and service reconfiguration. In some environments (especially Windows 11 + Hyper-V), this causes the registration step to appear stuck until the VM is restarted.
A manual restart of the VM during the registration phase allows the services to come up correctly and the registration to complete. This is reproducible and not a faulty installation.
It’s definitely confusing from a user perspective, and it would help if this restart requirement were documented or handled automatically. Your note is useful for others running into the same issue.