response 19 of 56:

Dec 13 22:50 UTC 2008

I was under the impression you could just map the serial port for the modem
to the VM. 
Here is a link to using serial ports with VMware.. not sure if it is at all

helpful, but... i thought i would throw it in
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_devices_serial.html