For what it's worth, I regularly "pull the virtual plug" on my Win10 VM during updates because fuck you it's time to go home, and I've never had it fail to boot

For what it's worth, I regularly "pull the virtual plug" on my Win10 VM during updates because fuck you it's time to go home, and I've never had it fail to boot the day after. It's obviously an unacceptable solution to the problem, but it's at least not disastrously fatal in most cases.