Thats pretty much the same exact thing that I do. I run my day to day activities on my workstation. Then, in a vmware session on that box, I have a workstation loaded with just the essentials I need to connect and work over the VPN.

I've always worried that if I got a keylogger on my host, it'd be able to see what I'm doing in vmware. It'd be nice to know for sure that what you do in one session can't affect the other sessions.

Offtopic: I wonder if both MSM and HTRegz are from Canada, eh? heh