Sudden Windows 11 BSOD 0xc0000225

SinanK2

Junior Member
I've been using this Windows 11 VM on Parallels for macOS Apple Silicon for three years now.

After the latest Windows Updates today, I started getting this blue screen upon boot:

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The image above is available at this address, in case it does not show in-line properly: https://ibb.co/FwPZwRF

Now the odd thing is, I reverted to an old version of this VM backed up on an external thumb drive (kept offline), and it too, is showing the same BSOD!

I would have thought Windows Update broke something, but what is going on?

This is super odd!

Anybody else seeing this problem all out of the blue (quite literally)?
 
Verified that this happens only after the latest Windows updates.

Discard the red herring about it happening to offline VMs. Somehow replacing the .pvm file/folder wasn't enough to replace the VM as Parallels managed to keep a link to the renamed, broken .pvm file/folder (interesting feature there) - and booted that one up, instead of the restored backup.

Updating the backup through Windows Update consistently reproduces the issue.

The issue also reproduces consistently across different Apple Silicon hardware.

Am I the only user seeing this?
 
Parallels deleted my account after I reported this issue directly to their support and they said they'd need to look at it.
Has this happened to anyone else before?
 
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