I have an Ubuntu 14.04 Host and a Win2k8 Guest. I have my source code (html) files on the host and share them to the guest via Samba. If I make small file edits to the file on the host, the guest does not recognize the file changes (i.e. I browse to the edited html page in chrome and changes aren't visible). Now, if I navigate to the file on the guest via Windows Explorer, and open the file I see the changes. I can then close the file without saving and on the Guest, refresh the browser and the changes are visible. I've notice that this happens usually when making small changes within the same minute. For instance if I make a change at 11:59pm, check in the browser to see the change it will not be visible (nor will any subsequent changes saved at 11:59), but if at 12:00am I save the file again on the Host the Guest will finally recognize the changes.
This has become very, very frustrating as I'm never sure if the code changes I've made are not working or just haven't been recognized by the guest. I would hate to have to edit the files directly in the guest, but at this point this may be my only option.
FWIW, I tried using shared folders, but that didn't work very well with IIS on the guest because I couldn't ever get the permissions worked out correctly. If anyone has any suggest, I'd be very happy to try them.
I am running VMWare Player 6.0.3 build 1895310 and have "downgraded" the VM Tools to version 9.6.2 build 1688356 per this thread ( vmghfs file corruption when file written by eclipse ) thinking my issue may be related to the bug described there. I've also experienced the changes not recognized problem on the latest VM tools.