vmware3 and serial devices

[Ralf Nagel]

Hi,

I've installed VMware-workstation-3.2.1-2242 from ports running Win2000
as guest, and everything seems to be okay. 
But... 
Could anyone tell me whether or not serial ports work with vmware3.
I've setup "/dev/cuaa0" as COM1, type "device" (and other combinations) 
in the configuration-editor, but when I try to "power on" the virtual
machine vmware hangs consuming more and more CPU very quickly.

Thanks....Ralf

System:
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (1211.94-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x642  Stepping = 2
real memory  = 805240832 (767 MB)
avail memory = 774688768 (738 MB)
acpi enabled
5.1-RELEASE-p10, nvidia-driver
/dev/cuaaX with user "uucp", group "dialer" (I'm in that group),
permissions "20660"

The relevant part in vmware.log seems to be:

[...]
Oct 30 23:39:12: VMX|serial0: Failed to set the Break state of the
"/dev/cuaa0"
Oct 30 23:39:12: VMX|
ct 30 23:39:12: VMX|serial0: state = 1, in[inIndex] = 0x01
Oct 30 23:39:12: VMX|NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(5010):895
Oct 30 23:39:12: VMX|Backtrace:
Oct 30 23:39:12: VMX|Backtrace[0] 0xbfbfef60 eip 0x80541d9
Oct 30 23:39:12: VMX|Backtrace[1] 0xbfbff78c eip 0x809fedb
Oct 30 23:39:12: VMX|Backtrace[2] 0xbfbff7c8 eip 0x809d4a5
Oct 30 23:39:12: VMX|Backtrace[3] 0xbfbff7dc eip 0x809d8dc
Oct 30 23:39:12: VMX|Backtrace[4] 0xbfbff800 eip 0x809bbd5
Oct 30 23:39:12: VMX|Backtrace[5] 0xbfbff814 eip 0x804c712
Oct 30 23:39:12: VMX|Backtrace[6] 0xbfbff828 eip 0x804c3c6
Oct 30 23:39:12: VMX|Backtrace[7] 0xbfbff840 eip 0x8053954
Oct 30 23:39:12: VMX|Backtrace[8] 0xbfbff854 eip 0x805372e
Oct 30 23:39:12: VMX|Backtrace[9] 0xbfbffa30 eip 0x804c0bd
Oct 30 23:39:12: VMX|Backtrace[10] 0xbfbffa50 eip 0x804ad58
Oct 30 23:39:12: VMX|Backtrace[11] 00000000 eip 0x804ac1a
[...]