Lately I've been setting up a lot of virtual machines. It is time-consuming and frustrating but the end results are extremely useful. I discovered that using Windows 2003 R2 consumes a lot of hard disk space. I started with an 8 Gb virtual hard drive and before I knew it I ran out of space. Of course, depending on the VM I needed Microsoft Office, or Visual Studio, or SharePoint, or SQL Server, or BizTalk, or all of the above. I developed my base virtual machine first and then sysprep-ped it and then started installing all of the requisite software....