Ventoy is an open source tool for creating a bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With Ventoy, you don’t need to format the drive again and again, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)EFI files to a USB flash drive and load them directly. You can copy many files at the same time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select from. Both Legacy BIOS and UEFI are supported equally. Most supported OS types (Windows/WinPE/Linux/Unix/Vmware/Xen…)
Features of Ventoy:
- 100% open source
- Easy to use
- Fast (limited only by iso file copying speed)
- Boot directly from ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI file, no extraction required
- Legacy + UEFI supported in the same way
- UEFI secure boot supported (since 1.0.07+)
- Persistence supported (since 1.0.11+)
- MBR and GPT partition style supported (1.0.15+)
- Supported downloading WIM files (Legacy + UEFI) (1.0.12+)
- Supported downloading IMG files (Legacy + UEFI) (1.0.19+)
- Automatic installation supported (1.0.09+)
- File injection supported (1.0.16+)
- ISO files larger than 4 GB are supported.
- Custom boot menu style for Legacy and UEFI
- Most OS types supported (Windows/WinPE/Linux/Unix/Vmware/Xen…), over 550 iso files tested
- Not only a download, but also a complete installation process
- ISO files can be listed in list mode/tree mode.
- Supports booting from Linux virtual disk (vdi/vhd/raw)
- Compatibility concept with Ventoy
- Plugin Platform
- Menu alias/menu style/custom menu supported
- Write-protected USB storage support
- Normal use of USB does not affect
- Non-destructive data when updating a version
- No need to update Ventoy when a new distribution is released
List of changes in Ventoy 1.0.77:
- Support for expanding variables in an unattend script. Notes
- Fix a UEFI memory allocation error on some computer. (#1671)
- We fixed an issue where the installation media was not recognized when installing Clear Linux. (#1674)
- Fix error loading daphile-21.01
- Update languages.json
See https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_news.html for details .
About the Ventoy Subscription Service Ventoy is open source software licensed under the GPLv3. But the Ventoy project needs to pay for server hosting, domain name, bandwidth, lots of USB drives for testing, large hard drive space (to download ISO files), and so on. For the better and sustainable development of Ventoy, I provide a subscription service. For details see: https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_subscription.html
Download: Ventoy 1.0.77 | 15.2 MB (open source) Download: Ventoy Live CD | 186.0 MB Link: Ventoy homepage | @GitHub project page
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