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Event ID 16040 — VMMS

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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: 16040
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Hyper-V-VMMS
Version: 6.0
Symbolic Name: MSVM_VMMS_GET_FREE_SPACE_ERROR
Message: Cannot get information about available space for path: %3. Error: %1 (%2).

Resolve

Ensure disk space

Ensure that you have sufficient disk space both before and after the operation.

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