After a bit of digging I think that notes below are where I am going to start with
the Mint7 VM. I will have a better feel for this in about 30 minutes or so.
:-)

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

-----Add the following lines-----

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/marceloshima/ubuntu jaunty main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/marceloshima/ubuntu jaunty main

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/freenx-team/ubuntu jaunty main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/freenx-team/ubuntu jaunty main

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install freenx-server

sudo apt-get install vlc

sudo apt-get install acroread

sudo apt-get install wine

sudo wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_jaunty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install playonlinux

sudo apt-get install multiget

sudo apt-get install filezilla filezilla-common