Virtualization: Portability

Increasingly over the past few years IT personnel have started to implement virtualization solutions in their computer environments. As technology improvements have reduced the amount of desk space that computer hardware and other physical equipment once took, virtualization seeks to reduce that space even further.

If you set up a virtual machine that dynamically expands the hard drive space, then after a basic Windows XP installation you can compress the configuration files and store them on a 2 GB USB flash drive.