Workstation 8 "could not find shared vm path"

Hello all,

Had this error while trying to share a VM in Workstation 8 "could not find shared vm path".

The way i solved was by disabling sharing (Edit -> Preferences -> Shared VMs), editing the datastores.xml file (C:\ProgramData\VMware\hostd) to something like (in red):

<ConfigRoot>
  <LocalDatastores>
    <_length>1</_length>
    <_type>hostd.host.LocalDatastoreEntry[]</_type>
    <e id="0">
      <_type>hostd.host.LocalDatastoreEntry</_type>
      <id>1</id>
      <name>standard</name>
      <path>C:\VMware-Shared</path>
    </e>
  </LocalDatastores>
  <NasVolumes>
    <_length>0</_length>
    <_type>hostd.host.NasDatastoreEntry[]</_type>
  </NasVolumes>
</ConfigRoot>

Enabled again the Shared VMs feature without a problem.

Hope that helps someone.

Luis Arnauth