Ventoy 1.0.90, a popular program for creating loading USB carriers, has been released. The updated version is designed to load several operating systems from unchanged ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD, and EFI-image, without needing to format the media or create an image. With Ventoy, users only need to copy the USB Flash with Ventoy loader and the set of ISO-images they are interested in. Then, Ventoy will provide the possibility of loading the operating systems inside.
A special feature of Ventoy is that users can replace or add new ISO-images at any time by just copying new files, making it easy to test and familiarize themselves with different distributions and operating systems. The project code is written in the language of SI and is licensed under GPL v3.
Ventoy supports loading on systems with BIOS, IA32 UEFI, X86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI, UEFI Secure Boot, and MIPS64el UEFI with MBR or GPT sections tables. The software can load various options for Windows, Winpe, Linux, BSD, Chromeos, as well as virtual VMware and Xen virtual machines. The developers have tested Ventoy with more than 1100 ISO images, including different versions of Windows and Windows Server, several hundred Linux distributions, and more than a dozen BSD systems.
The Ventoy bootloader can be installed on local disks, SSDs, NVMe, SD cards, and other drives that use Fat32, Exfat, NTFS, UDF, XFS, or EXT2/4/4. It also features an automated installation mode of the operating system in one file on a tolerable medium, with the ability to add users’ files to the created environment.
This latest version of Ventoy adds support for two more distributions- the Libreelec 11 and Chimera Linux. It optimizes the loading process for Fedora Linux and fixes the problem of determining the installation assemblies of Fedora Rawhide. Additionally, the VTOY_Linux_remount option now operates on systems with CPU Intel Gen11+ and Linux 5.18+.
Ventoy is an efficient and flexible tool that eliminates the need to create a unique bootable USB drive for each operating system. It is available on the official website and GitHub for free, and users are encouraged to try it as an alternative to other popular bootable USB creator tools.