I've built a Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal) 64 bit VM on Workstation 9.0.1. Host is a 6-core Windows 7 Professional 64 bit SP1 system with 32GB of physical RAM. I've also built a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32 bit VM, which is running fine.
After the build and upgrade of Ubuntu to the latest kernel, I try to share folders. I get an error message stating that this can't be done in real time:
Subsequently, a run of vmware-hgfsclient in the terminal session of the guest VM shows the correct share name of the shared folder. However, there is no folder of the same name mounted in /mnt/hgfs on the guest VM.
I have also rebooted the VM after enabling shared folders (always enabled) on the VM, again with no mounted shared folders in /mnt/hgfs .
This is not the case for the Ubuntu 12.04 32bit VM running on the same system, as all shared folders are mounted correctly and automatically by VMware Tools.
Please advise. This appears to be a problem specific to Ubuntu 12.10. Compatibility grid shows this is a supported OS on WS 9.x.