Issues with VMware and dialup?

[Randy Rathbun]

Here's the deal: I am wanting to dump Windows at home. I do still need 
to run it however, because I use Quicken to do all my banking 
(electronic bill pay, downloading statements, that type of stuff). 

Well, I started playing with vmware last week and I must say it is 
very cool - running NT in a window with no problems at all. 

Here is where a possible problem is creeping up on me - When you 
install the second OS, be it Win95, 98, NT, another Linux, etc., it is 
creating a new machine - it has it's own IP adress and everything, so 
it is possible to have a bunch of other computers with a virtual 
network set up, but you don't have any wires. 

I am guessing that if I was to use Linux to dial up, I would have to 
set Linux up to be a proxy for the virutal NT box? Or, would I be able 
to set up the virtual NT box to have it's own dialup and use the 
modem? Since I do not have a modem on this machine here, I can't test 
it to see if a modem would even work with the virtual machine. 

Has anyone tried this and if so, what did you do wrong (or, what 
should I watch out for)?

TIA,
Randy