Ventoy - A New Bootable USB Solution

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Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the image files to the USB drive and boot it. You can copy many image files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them.
x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI are supported in the same way.
Both MBR and GPT partition style are supported in the same way.
Most type of OS supported(Windows/WinPE/Linux/Unix/Vmware/Xen...)
700+ ISO files are tested. 90%+ distros in distrowatch.com supported.

Features

100% open source Simple to use Fast (limited only by the speed of copying iso file) Can be installed in USB/Local Disk/SSD/NVMe/SD Card Directly boot from ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files, no extraction needed No need to be continuous in disk for ISO/IMG files MBR and GPT partition style supported (1.0.15+) x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI, MIPS64EL UEFI supported IA32/x86_64 UEFI Secure Boot supported (1.0.07+) Persistence supported (1.0.11+) Windows auto installation supported (1.0.09+) RHEL7/8/CentOS/7/8/SUSE/Ubuntu Server/Debian ... auto installation supported (1.0.09+) FAT32/exFAT/NTFS/UDF/XFS/Ext2(3)(4) supported for main partition ISO files larger than 4GB supported Native boot menu style for Legacy & UEFI Most type of OS supported, 700+ iso files tested Linux vDisk boot supported Not only boot but also complete installation process Menu dynamically switchable between List/TreeView mode "Ventoy Compatible" concept Plugin Framework Injection files to runtime environment Boot configuration file dynamically replacement Highly customizable theme and menu USB drive write-protected support USB normal use unaffected Data nondestructive during version upgrade No need to update Ventoy when a new distro is released

Installation Instructions

See https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_start.html for detail

Compile Instructions

Please refer to BuildVentoyFromSource.txt

Document

FAQ

See https://www.ventoy.net/en/faq.html for detail

Forum

https://forums.ventoy.net

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