Well, in WKS v9 I had about 5 VM's in shared folders. My OS is Opensuse 12.3 64b by the way. Yes I see my VM's that are not shared. When I click on "Shared VMs" in the window to the right where you would see VM details it states "Unable to connect to the Workstation Server". Yes I have rebooted and restarted services. Also, when I go to a VM which is not shared the option to share the VM is grayed out? What service is required to be running for Sharing to work? vmware service is running.
My fix was to un-install exp and install 9.0.2. Shared folders are back.
Thx