Ventoy

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Ventoy
Developer(s) Hailong Sun (aka longpanda)
Initial release5 April 2020
Stable release 1.1.05 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg (24 February 2025;2 months ago (24 February 2025)) [±]
Repository
Operating system Cross-platform (Windows, Linux)
License GPLv3+ License
Website ventoy.net/en/   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Ventoy is a free and open-source utility used for creating bootable USB media storage devices with files such as .iso, .wim, .img, .vhd(x), and .efi. Once Ventoy is installed on a USB drive, new installation files can be added without reformatting. [2] [3] [4] Ventoy presents the user with a boot menu to select one of the installation files held on the USB drive.

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Features

Ventoy can be installed on a USB flash drive, local disk, solid-state drive (SSD, NVMe), or SD card and directly boots from the selected .iso, .wim, .img, .vhd(x), or .efi file(s) added. Ventoy does not extract the image file(s) to the USB drive, but uses them directly, as it can unzip during installation. It is possible to place multiple ISO images on a single device and select the image to boot from the menu displayed just after Ventoy boots.

MBR and GPT partition styles, x86 Legacy BIOS and various UEFI boot methods (including persistence) are supported. ISO files larger than 4 GB can be used. Ventoy supports various operating system boot and installation ISO files, including Windows 7 and later, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Fedora and more than a hundred other Linux distributions; various Unix releases, VMware, Citrix XenServer, etc. have also been tested. [5] Ventoy isn't recommended on the openSUSE wiki due to reports of boot issues. [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Release 1.1.05". 24 February 2025. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
  2. ↑ Langner, Christopher. "Tutorial – Ventoy". Linux Magazine. Linux New Media USA. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  3. ↑ "Bootable USB Creator Ventoy Gets A Native GUI For Linux". 14 September 2021.
  4. ↑ "You may now use Ventoy without deleting data on USB Sticks". 11 November 2021. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  5. ↑ "List Of Tested ISOs". Archived from the original on 2021-04-01. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  6. ↑ "Create installation USB stick".
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