

X86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI are supported in the same way.īoth MBR and GPT partition style are supported in the same way. You can also browse ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files in local disk and boot them. You can copy many image files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. 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. It will use search command to enumerate all the HDs to find the file.Īttention that the following formats are INVALID: set my_vhd_path="(hd1,1)/VhdDir/Win10.vhd" set my_vhd_path="E:\VhdDir\Win10.vhd" set my_vhd_path="\VhdDir\Win10.Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. You don't need to specify which HD the file is on. In this example, my_vhd_path is set to /VhdDir/Win10.vhd you can change it to your customized path (e.g.

Vhdboot_common_func "($vdiskhd)$my_vhd_path" If search -n -s vdiskhd -f "$my_vhd_path" then Please refer Menu Extension Plugin for details about the custom boot menu.Īdd a menu like follows to ventoy_grub.cfg, only need to change my_vhd_path to the absolute path of the actual file (from the root of that partition). You can also use a custom boot menu to boot the VHD(x) file at local disk by Ventoy. Please refer Boot Image Files In Local Disk Method 2 You can also boot a VHD(x) file in local disk by Ventoy.
Ventoy arch manual#
The manual above is for copy the VHD(x) file to the USB drive and boot with Ventoy. Boot Windows VHD(x) at local disk by Ventoy.
Ventoy arch update#
Easy to update ventoy_vhdboot.img separately These files in ventoy_vhdboot.img are NOT open source, they are directly extracted from Windows ISO file.Ģ. This feature was not integrated by Ventoy.
Ventoy arch 64 Bit#
In UEFI mode, only 64 bit Windows is supported, 32 bit is NOT supported.Better to use traditional method to confirm that the VHD(x) file can be booted normally before use Ventoy to boot it.You can refer to: or: Generally, the hard disk is recommended to use NTFS format, the USB drive is recommended to use exFAT format. For Windows 10 v1803 and previous versions, the partition storing VHD(X) files must be formatted as NTFS file system.įor Windows 10 v1809+, in addition to NTFS, VHD(X) files can also be stored in the exFAT partition.

You need to create the ventoy directory manually, because there is no such directory by default.Put the file in ventoy partition which hold the ISO files, don't put it in the 32MB VTOYEFI partition.There is some compatibility problem in bootmgr, so I provide different versions ventoy_vhdboot.img for you to test.Put the file under ventoy directory in the ventoy partition of the USB stick, that is /ventoy/ventoy_vhdboot.img and that's all. Both fixed and dynamic VHD(x) are supported. Ventoy use this plugin to boot VHD(x) files with Windows 7+ in it.īoth Legacy BIOS and UEFI are supported.
