Attached is another log. I disabled the printing support in VMWare Player settings. It booted this time, and very quickly too.
However, when trying to change the resolution by dragging the window borders, the screen froze again for 30 seconds around 5:05:55 p.m.
After that a window popped up in the guest and said Compiz crashed. Slightly different error information this time, but still noting X failed to get the EDID.