Other people more familiar w/ mini-splits than I am. I'm sure they'll chime in. All I know is I probably should have considered them more thoroughly
If you're trying to use what you've got, I'm sure you can figure out a way to duct this to the outside as well in an elegant manner. Guess it doesn't necessarily have to be elegant if you're stationary most of the time. If it were me and I needed to start with a portable unit, I'd be leaning towards figuring out a ducting solution that allowed me to upgrade to a static unit later with ease. Like maybe using the same penetration to be used eventually for the hoses/wiring to the mini-split's external unit? I dunno.
Don't know how big of a unit you're talking about, but it seems like even small it would be easy to get in the way. Hence the emphasis on at least planning for the option to go with something more permanent later.