What to do when your system crashes in XP mode (in hibernation or during shutdown, system reboot)?

What to do when your system crashes in XP mode (in hibernation or during shutdown, system reboot)?

This is a fairly common problem. Microsoft in his goodness in general, trying to hide advanced options against inexperienced users.

Sometimes this can cause a variety of problems. For example, if your virtual machine crashes during hibernation / shutdown, is hardly what we can do with it. We can't restart our virtual computer because our virtual machine is simply a file.

After restarting the file is still saved, the system is being shut down and hibernate;)

So our virtual machine is suspended. In your virtual machine menu when you, select Action> close than by default, without any additional questions, our machine hibernates ;).


But our virtual machine is already suspended, so how to switch of XP Mode machine?. Of course, closing with a cross or "Close" does not give us anything.

We need to change the default settings for your virtual machine:

- In Windows "Start" menu go to Windows Virtual PC>Windows Virtual PC and select the file of your virtual machine by pressing the right mouse button on it.

- Select "Settings" and go to "Close". Select "prompt for action", click ok
Now, when you click close button you should see prompt for action, for example "power off" ;)