hello,

I am having the same issue and the 911125 is not installed....

Unless I found a solution I will create a support ticket.....pretty soon...
Are there special tools to troubleshoot VSS.....outside vssadmin ?

Cheers

"Marc Van der Sypt" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have this issue after installing hotfix 941125 which resolves an issue
> where VS2K5R2SP1 hangs when you configure the virtual machines to
> automatically start.
>
> Marc
>
>
> "Becker" <Becker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:69582D78-B463-47B0-827A-3BB45C1FD7FF@microsoft.com...
> > We are running virtual server R2 SP1 with a windows 2003 ent R2 host and a
> > guest of the same. We have been using a script to do the backups using
> > VSS
> > writers and it worked a few times but now it is barfing with this:
> >
> > The VSS writer for Virtual Server failed during the PrepareBackup phase,
> > since the backup of virtual machine HOOSIER12 failed. Retry the operation.
> >
> > We have found only one other person similar with this issue, but no
> > resolve
> > from what we found, anyone seen this before?
> >
> > The only thing that has changed really is we loaded Exchange SP2 and
> > promoted this virtual machine to a domain controller.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
>
>