Coldfusion Frameworks and networks

As anyone following me on twitter will know I've been playing with VMware a lot recently. One of the things that it lets you do it map to a local drive on your computer. This is great as it stops your having to copy code from one place to another.

I setup apache and CF8 on my Virtual Machine (VM) and made the mappings to my applications and then to my frameworks. The problem was I kept getting errors with timeouts, such as

The bottom line is that frameworks don't like being run over networked drives or networks full stop. I downloaded the frameworks and created the mappings to point at them locally and everything ran like a dream.