I originally posted this as a followup to a different thread post from 7/2012, but I see now that that thread seems to be in a category that doesn't show up... (VMware Fusion Technology Preview 2012).
Windows 7 crashes when using files/folders on the shared host filesystem.
Fusion 5.0.2, on Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and 64-bit Win7 Enterprise.
The stuff I develop is cross-platform, and I depend on Linux and WIndows VM's to build/test in those environments. The files all exist on the host Mac filesystem.
I had no problems with Windows until after I upgraded from Fusion 3 to Fusion 5 (which I needed to do to support Ubuntu 12.04).
I have a suite of tests for my stuff that opens/closes/reads/writes/creates/deletes files and directories. Windows crashes 100% of the time if the files/directories I'm using are Shared files/folders on the host (Mac). If I copy the files onto the native guest (VM) filesystem there is never a problem. It's a PITA to try to isolate, because I have to wait for Windows to reboot every time it happens.
This is NOT Windows Explorer hanging or crashing, this is Windows crashing. I run my tests from a command line, and generally never have a Windows Explorer window available.
In general most of the issues I've encountered in Fusion 5 are mostly annoyances that I can work around. But this is a real problem.
I originally thought I had no problems at all with the Linux VM. Actually, I was wrong, problems do happen with the Linux VM. Except in that case the entire VM session hangs, and the only thing I can do is switch back to the Mac and restart the VM. And it that case it's usually not the tests that crash, it's the compiles. I had commented on that already: