VM1 experienced a stop error and will not boot. To examine the memory dump for the failure, what should you do first?

When a VM experiences a stop error and won't boot, the memory dump (often a crash dump file like MEMORY.DMP or a minidump) is located on the VM's OS disk. To access and analyze this file, you must attach the problematic VM's OS disk to another healthy VM (VM2 in this case) as a data disk. This allows you to browse the file system of the unbootable VM and retrieve the dump file for analysis with tools like WinDbg. Running Azure Serial Console on VM1 won't help if the VM isn't booting, as it provides console access, not file system access. Enabling boot diagnostics for VM1 might show boot logs but won't give you direct access to the memory dump itself. Running Azure Serial Console on VM2 is irrelevant to VM1's issue.