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Yes, and I think its much worse in terms of reliability. When I save a file (say a Gemfile), sometimes only half of it shows up inside the container.

Anybody know what would cause VMWare Fusion (or any VM for that matter) to behave this way?

I run into this. Files are only partially synced.

You end up with broken code. If you are lucky it has a syntax error. If you are not lucky you get mysterious bugs.

The work around is to go back and try re-editing the file to retrigger a sync.

There are lots recommendations to try Fusion over Vbox but I think this issue makes it a wash.

This is a known bug, we're addressing it with a new version of open-vm-tools, there's a thread going on over at github[1] to track this.