As you might already know, I own a license to a Microsoft operating system which was preinstalled with my Fujitsu-Siemens (yep, a pair being long since defunct) ultramobile box. Unfortunately it didn’t work very well with this hardware since it liked to reboot itself every now and then, until it finally refused to boot at all.

Fortunately the Innotek, I mean Sun, I mean Oracle’s VirtualBox is able to handle Windows very well, including support for USB gadgets. In fact, if it weren’t for those USB drivers, I wouldn’t bother emulating that imperial system (apart from editing this note from Microsoft Word, but WTH). Thing is, I gave it insufficient disk space, as 25 gigabytes provides quite a challenge to handle the system partition nowadays. As I plan to have more data from my devices (more of them), I had to find a bigger boat. Saving space through the shared folder with host didn’t solve everything. So here’s what I’ve done:


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