I have just upgraded my VMWare Fusion from version 3 to version 4.1.1. My Mac is running Snow Leopard version 10.6.8. I am running Ubuntu 11.10 desktop in a virtual machine and I have shared my Mac home directory on the Ubuntu machine over hgfs.
If I access a symbolic link on my Mac home directory from the Ubuntu file system the symbolic link does not work.
To reproduce:
On the Mac side, create a directory ~/tmp.
Make the Mac home directory a shared directory to the Ubuntu virtual machine
On the Ubuntu VM,
cd /mnt/hgfs/<username>/tmp
echo "This is a test over hgfs" >foo
ln -s foo bar
tail bar
tail: cannot open `bar' for reading: No such file or directory