I have ran into what appears to be a serious bug with VMWare Workstation 10.
I am running on a 64-bit version of Linux Mint 17 with VMWare Workstation 10.0.3 build-1895310.
The guest OS is Windows 7 Enterprise (64-bit). I have shared a host folder with the name of "Domains". On the Windows 7 guest, I am trying to create a symbolic link to the source code for our application, which resides on the host hard drive, in the domains folder. I am using the mklink command as follows:
mklink /D sourcecode "\\vmware-host\Shared Folders\Domains"
The link is created properly and I am able to view it, etc., using command line or Windows Explorer, except I can only see one directory deep!!!
If I go into a subdirectory (which is successful), and do a dir, it shows no files. Files do exist on the host. If I create a file (eg: copy con: test.txt), the creation succeeds and the file is visible on the host. However, it is still invisible on the guest in the sub-directory.
This is something that I have done successfully with Oracle VirtualBox and Parallels. In fact, I imported the VM into my MacBook and it runs great under Parallels.
Please advise. I have tried adding the followSymbolicLinks option to the *.vmx file, without any change in behavior.
Cheers!
Kevin A.