No, portable areas require a VirtualPathProvider to be set. VirtualPathProviders must be configured via code.
The current version of Umbraco (4. X) is based on the web-forms model so it won't be easy incorporating MVC into it (though I believe Umbraco 5 - still in planning - will be MVC based).
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