Windows Vista x64 host.
Windows Vista x32 guest.
VMWare Workstation 6.5.
Guest has access to one of the host's drives via shared folder which is mapped inside the guest.
On the guest I access a DLL (specifically, add the DLL to the guest's global assembly cache).
On the guest I then remove the DLL from the global assembly cache (which should unlock the file).
On the host I try to delete the file but it fails because the file is in use.
Using Process Explorer I can see that vmware-vmx.exe has an open handle to the DLL in question.
Restart the guest OS (not VMWare, just the guest OS) to ensure that it isn't holding a lock.
Try deleting the file on the host again, still in use by vmware-vmx.exe.
Why does VMWare keep locks on shared files even after the guest OS isn't using them anymore?
Is there a way to release the lock without restarting VMWare Workstation?
