Event ID 10107 — VMMS

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.

The Virtual Machine Management Service (Vmms.exe)  is the service that uses WMI to perform Virtual System Management related operations in Hyper-V and the Hyper-V Manager.

Event Details

Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 10107
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS
Version: 6.0
Symbolic Name: MSVM_VMMS_VM_VSS_GET_COMPONENTS_ERROR
Message: An error occurred while identifying the Hyper-V VSS writer. Check for any corrupt or invalid configuration files and try again.

Resolve

Check VSS configuration

The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is a service that coordinates various components to create consistent shadow copies of one or more volumes. Check the virtual machine configuration files. By default virtual machine configuration files are at  %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines.

Verify

Check that the VMMS service is in the running state in the Service Control Manager and that the failed operation now succeeds.

VMMS

Hyper-V