If you read this thread carefully you will find that the issue has been fixed quite some time ago - with recent builds like the ones you are using you shouldn't be facing this particual issue. At least we never experienced anything related to that issue since U3c.

I am not 100% sure you have the same problem though anyway. Have you tried changing some VMs from GRID to Software 3D? This was our solution until VMware finally fixed the bug. Not being able to (fully) copy log files from the VM seems a little unusual and would point more into the direction of networking issues?

What I totally have to repeat is that VMware Level 1 support is (almost always) a class of its own - in a bad, like really bad, way.