The Ventoy 1.0.90 toolkit for creating bootable USB media containing multiple operating systems has been released. The program is remarkable in that it provides the ability to boot the OS from unchanged ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD and EFI images without requiring unpacking the image or reformatting the media. For example, it is enough to simply copy the set of iso images of interest to a USB Flash with the Ventoy bootloader, and Ventoy will provide the ability to boot the operating systems inside. At any time, you can replace or add new iso images simply by copying new files, which is convenient for testing and preliminary familiarization with various distributions and operating systems. The project code is written in C language and distributed under the GPLv3 license.
Ventoy supports booting on BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI, UEFI Secure Boot, and MIPS64EL UEFI systems with MBR or GPT partition tables. It supports booting various flavors of Windows, WinPE, Linux, BSD, ChromeOS, as well as Vmware and Xen virtual machine images. The developers have tested more than 1100 iso images with Ventoy, including various versions of Windows and Windows Server, several hundred Linux distributions (90% of the distributions presented on distrowatch.com are claimed to be tested), more than a dozen BSD systems (FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, pfSense, FreeNAS, etc.).
In addition to USB media, the Ventoy bootloader can be installed on a local drive, SSD, NVMe, SD cards and other types of drives that use FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, UDF, XFS or Ext2/3/4 file systems. There is a mode of automated installation of the operating system in one file on portable media with the ability 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).
In the new version, the number of supported iso images has been increased to 1100. Support for LibreELEC 11 and Chimera Linux distributions has been added. Implemented optimizations for the Fedora Linux boot process, fixed an issue with detecting Fedora Rawhide installation builds. The VTOY_LINUX_REMOUNT option has been adjusted for systems with Intel Gen11+ CPUs and Linux 5.18+ kernels.
Source: opennet.ru