Don't you just hate it how Vmware doesn't give you the privilege to shutdown and instead only allows you to suspend the image?? Well I came across a video that shows you how to shutdown your vm using VMware
I experiences this issue when I tried to move a backup VM file from my USB drive to my local drive though I was getting the error
The item "Solaris 10 64-bit" can't be copied because there isn't enough free space