The Ventoy 1.1.09 toolkit has been released, designed for creating bootable USB drives that include multiple operating systems. The program allows booting OS from unchanged ISO-, WIM-, IMG-, VHD-, and EFI-images, without requiring unpacking the image or reformatting the drive. Simply copy the desired set of images onto a USB Flash drive with the Ventoy bootloader, and it will provide booting for the operating systems contained within the images. At any moment, you can replace or add new ISO images by copying new files, making it convenient for testing and previewing various distributions and operating systems. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the GPLv3 license.
Ventoy supports booting on systems with BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI, UEFI Secure Boot, and MIPS64EL UEFI with MBR or GPT partition tables. It supports various versions of Windows, WinPE, Linux, BSD, ChromeOS, and images from Vmware and Xen. The developers have tested Ventoy with over 1200 ISO images, including various versions of Windows and Windows Server, several hundred Linux distributions, and more than a dozen BSD systems (FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, pfSense, FreeNAS, etc.). of virtual machines Vmware and Xen. Developers have tested the operation of Ventoy with more than 1300 ISO images, including various versions of Windows and Windows Server, several hundred Linux distributions, and over a dozen BSD systems (FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, pfSense, FreeNAS, etc.).
In addition to USB drives, the Ventoy bootloader can be installed on local disks, SSDs, NVMe, SD cards, and other types of storage that use FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, UDF, XFS, or Ext2/3/4 file systems. There is a mode for automated installation of the operating system into a single file on a portable medium, with the option to add your own files to the created environment (for example, to create images with Windows or Linux distributions that do not support Live mode).
The new version introduces experimental support for the Btrfs filesystem, allowing the use of partitions with Btrfs in ISO files and displaying local disks with Btrfs in the Browser menu, accessed by pressing F2. However, Btrfs modes with RAID are currently not supported, and compression of ISO files with Btrfs is unavailable. Issues with loading openSUSE 16.0 and the persistence plugin with the latest Arch Linux have been resolved. Recently, Ventoy 1.1.08 was also released, which added support for FreeBSD 15 and new tested ISO images.
Source: opennet.ru
