After my previous blog posting asking for the old and familiar "Classic" start menu, it seems as if my VPC of Windows 7 has a sense of humor and obliged me with an old familiar BSOD...my first Windows 7 BSOD!
For all the changes to things over the years with the Windows systems, this is one old standby that hasn't changed a bit.
I ended up going into Windows normally but this process was repeatable and the next time I went to shut down my Windows 7 VPC I got the same BSOD. So it looks as if I have found a bug...though I'm not sure what it is.
Here's Windows 7 running in Safe Mode:
Here's a detail screen of the Event Log entries that correspond to the BSOD.
And finally here's a detail view of the Bugcheck details for this error. FWIW I sent those details to Microsoft's error checking online repository and I've saved the memory dump, but I'm not that well versed in going over memory dumps.
The error only cropped up since I installed some software since last night and only happens when I go to shut down the VPC. It stays for a LOOOOONG time on the "Shutting down" screen then BSODs. It's happening over and over again (3x so far) so I'll just start uninstalling software on the Windows 7 VPC until it shuts down cleanly again. FWIW here's the software I've installed on it so far:
JKDefrag, Windows XP Virtual CD ROM Control Panel and Virtual Clone Drive.