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Other suggestions:
• Reinstall the Integration services in that VM
• Do some manipulations with the VHD file: compact if it’s dynamic, convert to fixed
As a workaround, you could run automated tasks to stop the VM before starting the backup and start it back short after the VSS is done. The following post might help: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Microsoft/Applications/Virtual_Server/Hyper-V/Q_25100878.html
FYI: inline backup (without putting the VM in saved mode) is supported only in the Enterprise releases of Windows 7 and 8, and in all server releases starting with Windows Server 2003.