Quote from: AaronM on June 11, 2011, 06:12:22 PM

Quote from: cypherdoc on June 11, 2011, 04:50:31 PM

as i asked above, wouldn't confining your browsing to the VM go a long way to protecting your wallet on the host?

Yes, it would help. I would use a VM that doesn't try to do fancy optimization like using hardware virtualization or x86-to-x86 translation. A simple, "pure" VM has less opportunities for its programmers to screw up and introduce security holes. Maybe QEmu?

Do as little as possible outside of a VM, and have Bitcoin running either outside all VMs or in a separate VM from your browsing/email/whatever.

Also, see my thread about Qubes: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11837.0;topicseen

You seem to be talking about emulators as opposed to VMs. That's even more waste, and emulation software is even more likely to have vulnerabilities than hardware virtualization.