I never saw display driver crash on my computer before vmware. It crashes really quick (5 to 10 minutes) when using a browser with several tabs open
in the guest OS (especially chrome with youtube, blogs, gmail, and other tabs).
I just turned off "Accelerated 3D graphics" in VMware setting and so far there is no display driver crash.
I guess, at least for me, it's Accelerated 3D graphics in VMware that crashes display drivers on my computer.
It's been 2 hours without the crash.