NTSTATUS 0xC037000D (STATUS_VID_MB_STILL

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The memory block for the virtualization infrastructure driver is still being used and cannot be destroyed.

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Constant	Type	OS
ERROR_VID_MB_STILL_REFERENCED	HRESULT	Windows

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STATUS_VID_MB_STILL_REFERENCED

The memory block is still referenced

STATUS_VID_MB_STILL_REFERENCED is a teardown ordering failure. VID refused to destroy a memory block because some page range, notification queue, mapping, or client still owns a reference to it.

VID still has at least one reference to the memory block when destruction is requested, so teardown cannot complete safely. Follow dependent GPA ranges, mappings, notification associations, and clients back to their owners to find the reference that outlived the block's intended lifetime.

Do not treat it as ordinary low memory. The important question is who still references the block after the higher layer decided it should be destroyed.

What to inspect

Trace memory-block create, map, lock, notification association, and close operations for the same VM.
Check whether an earlier device or worker-process path failed before releasing its mapping.
Look for outstanding GPA-range handles when VM teardown or memory resize begins.

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