I made again a VM from OpenSUSE template and did the same things again and did not notice similar problem. I think the main difference was that I manually entered the password during the setup.
I have some other problems now, but I think I need to open new tickets for those. The main point is that the OpenSUSE template is working quite OK for me.
I am not able to use RDP to the SUSE VM, but I need to study it more.