Hello, I have complained about this before and here I go again. VMWare has long had a stubborn handle problem with shared folders. For example if you share a folder with a guest and then copy an exe from that folder in the guest VMWare may still maintain an open handle to the exe on the host. Even if you log out of the account on the guest, or reboot the guest, the handle remains open by vmware-vmx.
This plays out for me in the following way. I develop on the host in Visual Studio, and I share the output location with a guest. If I copy the file on the guest it remains open in the host. So when I make whatever change I need to make and then attempt to rebuild on the host I cannot because of the open handle. The workaround for this is currently to copy the exe *in the host* and then make it available to the guest, which is less than ideal, and must be done once per change (ie a.exe, a1.exe a2.exe a3.exe). Alternatively I could pause and resume the guest but that takes longer.
Observed in 8.0.0 build-471780 and of course 7.x versions.
That is terribly annoying and this is a petition to fix it. If you want this fixed reply with +1.
Thanks