Unable to boot nixos ISO in UEFI in virtualbox

I’d like to try out nixos in a virtual machine using UEFI and secureboot (lanzaboot), but the latest 23.11 ISO (with plasma) doesn’t boot at all in UEFI (without secureboot enabled). I’m just greeted with.

Maybe nixos isn’t one of the “special” OSes supported by VirtualBox?

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the optical drive definitely exists (as seen in the first picture). Below is the config

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Has anybody been able to make nixos work in a virtual machine with UEFI?