Hi there,
Sorry for the long delay in getting to reply to you on this.
The short answer here is that there were design decisions about symlinks creation and following of symlinks through shared folders that means you cannot do both at the same time on the same share.
That is to say, both create a symlink and follow it or in your example read the target file. So you can happily create symlinks on your share by default, but following the symlink and accessing the target will fail by default.
This decision is under review. Following symlinks can add a large performance overhead as the code has to check where the target goes to and ensure that it remains inside the share and does not go elsewhere on the host otherwise it is a security flaw.
However to allow following symlinks for a share, you can create a separate share that will overlap where your host folder is on the Mac side.
Then edit the VM's VMX file and add a new setting for that new share you created (see editing the VMX file below).
To edit the VM's VMX file. You should stop the VM and Fusion then edit the file and save it (back it up first for good measure) with the new setting.
Restart Fusion and the VM.
Use the new share for reading the target file's contents of the symlink (tail bar in your example), and use the original share to create symlinks.
Editing the VMX file:
In Finder go to the folder and it if it is a vmwarem then highlight it and bring up the context menu and select show package contents.
In that folder of the VM, find the file with the .vmx extension and edit it in TextEdit for example.
Scroll down the file and locate the
sharedFolderX.present = "TRUE"
and the other sharedFolder lines where X is just the number of the shared folder.
There could be many depending on how many you use and have created.
Add the following line for the shared folder you want to enable following of symlinks on:
sharedFolderX.followSymlinks = "TRUE"
X is the number of the shared folder you want to modify.
You can always change this to "FALSE" or delete the line (once Fusion is not active) if you want to revert the setting.
I hope this helps.