As a side note, the mksSandbox log gets created in a spurious location if there are Unicode characters in the path name of the Virtual Machine. Other logs do not have this problem.
For years I have habitually distinguished special folders with preceding full stops and lower case to sort them to the top of the Explorer listing and distinguish them from project folders (eg: .templates, .backups, .output, etc). Since the additional of WSL, the meaning of proceeding full stop in file names is now "hidden" in the Linux context, so I have started experimenting with other characters such as Unicode "Middle Dot".
Unfortunately, this upsets the mksSandbox log which creates a spurious new path for itself where the "middle dot" is preceded by a spurious "Â" character (Â as in "Angstrom").
Although this might seem an odd edge case, it might be prudent to make sure that VMware is robust in a Unicode file system by ensuring it handles Unicode characters in paths correctly (as this will be important in countries that do not speak English).
In the meantime, I will drop preceding characters altogether and resort to square brackets for special folders, although it is not as "clean" in appearance.
