I am splitting my development time between the office and home and other sites depending on travel.   Currently, I am transporting my laptop everywhere I go to be able to do development where ever I am.

I am buying a server to run Windows Server 2008 with 8 Gigs of ram to store files and act as an DHCP server where I will be able to host my SQL Server Express development databases.   I am fortunate enough to have this server all to myself, because I am the only developer.  My thought was to move my development machine unto the server so I can connect to it anywhere at anytime to do my development using remote desktop or some sort of virtual machine.

I have never used virtual machines or connect to a server using remote desktop to do development.   This is something I would like to do.  I am leaning towards running some sort of virtual machine on the server so I can make an image backup and connecting to the server remotely using the remote desktop to do my development. 

I am looking for advice on how I should to this or is this a bad idea?

Thanks,

Jeff