Hi! Job execution fails due to Jenkins Slave disconnection.

Problem appears in environment when Jenkins Master runs on a stand-alone box and a Slave
on a VMWare Virtual Machines under Labmanager.
However, Jenkins Master-Slave communication between physical hosts works fine me.

Slave throws an exception during project build or Slave installation as a Windows service:
java.io.UTFDataFormatException

Slave log:

SEVERE: I/O error in channel channel
java.io.UTFDataFormatException
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readUTFSpan(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readUTFBody(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.readUTF(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readUTF(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.readNonProxy(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDescriptor(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(Unknown Source)
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:992)

Project build log:

FATAL: hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: java.net.SocketException: socket closed
hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: java.net.SocketException: socket closed
at hudson.remoting.Request.call(Request.java:137)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:643)
at hudson.EnvVars.getRemote(EnvVars.java:202)
at hudson.model.Computer.getEnvironment(Computer.java:805)
at hudson.model.Run.getEnvironment(Run.java:1778)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild.getEnvironment(AbstractBuild.java:745)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.decideWorkspace(AbstractBuild.java:400)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:417)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1374)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:145)
Caused by: hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: java.net.SocketException: socket closed
at hudson.remoting.Request.abort(Request.java:257)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.terminate(Channel.java:694)
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:1016)
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: socket closed
at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(Unknown Source)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$PeekInputStream.peek(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peek(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream$BlockDataInputStream.peekByte(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(Unknown Source)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(Unknown Source)
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:992)

Jenkins runs under Windows 2003 Server.

Master-Slave configurations that I have tried:
Launch Slave agents via Java Web Start,
Let Jenkis controls a slave as a Windows service.

Jenkins versions: 1.411, 1.425, 1.430.