Ventoy 1.1.18 – Bootable USB Creator

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/ WIM/ IMG/ VHD(x)/ EFI files. Using this application, you don’t need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/ WIM/ IMG/ VHD(x)/ EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly.

You can copy many files at a time and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. The app supports x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI in the same way. Also it supports the most type of OS (Windows/ WinPE /Linux/ ChromeOS/ Unix/ VMware/Xen…)

Features:

• 100% open source
• Very simple to use
• Fast (limited only by the speed of copying iso file)
• Can be installed in USB /Local Disk/ SSD/ NVMe /SD Card
• Directly boot from ISO/ WIM/ IMG/ VHD(x)/ EFI files, no extraction needed
• No need to be continuous in disk for ISO/ WIM/ IMG/ VHD(x)/ EFI files
• Supports Both MBR and GPT partition style
• x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI, MIPS64EL UEFI supported
• Supports IA32/x86_64 UEFI Secure Boot
• Persistence supported
• Supports Windows auto installation
• RHEL7/8/CentOS7/8/SUSE/Ubuntu Server … auto installation supported
• FAT32/exFAT/NTFS/UDF/XFS/Ext2(3)(4) supported for main partition
• Supports ISO files larger than 4GB
• Native boot menu style for Legacy and UEFI
• Most type of OS supported, 760+ iso files tested
• Linux vDisk (vhd/vdi/raw…) boot solution
• Not only boot but also complete installation process
• Menu dynamically switchable between ListView and TreeView mode
• “Ventoy Compatible” concept
• Plugin Framework
• Injection files to runtime enviroment
• Boot configuration file dynamically replacement
• Highly customizable theme and menu style
• USB drive write-protected support
• USB normal use unaffected
• Data nondestructive during version upgrade
• No need to update Ventoy when a new distro is released

Ventoy is composed by many open source projects and some code developed by myself. All the code developed by myself follows GPLv3+ License. For these open source projects, some I modify their source code, and some I directly use their libraries or binaries. All the modified code follow the same license as the project itself.

What’s New in version 1.1.18:

• Experimental support for SteamOS recovery images.
• Improve the Linux remount feature to make the ISO partition mountable out of the box on mainstream desktop distros.
• Suppress the duplicate disk icons in the sidebar on some Linux desktop distros.
• Change the ISO partition dm name to stable /dev/mapper/VentoyPart, please refer Notes
• Make the ISO partition mountable for CloneZilla.
• Fix Fedora 45 beta boot issue.
• Fix the Windows/WinPE secure boot version check failed issue.
• Fix Persistence intermittently fails on Ubuntu desktop.
• Fix the boot issue for Grml 2026.09.
• Add support for custom Syslinux-based ISO.
• Improvement for latest LinuxConsole release.
• Add check for Boot Conf Replace entries in VentoyPlugson.

What’s New in version 1.1.17:

• Optimization for Secure Boot process.
• Fix the boot issue for some UOS release.
• Add support for some EulerOS release.
• Fix the disk_write logic error (#3693)
• Add log for live injection process.
• Add support for Athena OS (#3689)
• Fix the boot issue for latest GhostBSD (#3664)
• Fix the PATH broken in Ventoy2Disk.sh (#3615)
• Fix fdisk detection on BusyBox systems (#3614)
• Fix the issue that proxmox-ve can not boot after install in grub2 mode.
• Languages update.

What’s New in version 1.1.16:

• Fix the boot issue with old UEFI version firmware when secure boot is disabled.
• Fix the latest Kicksecure boot issue. (#3651)
• Fix the issue that VTOY_WIN_UEFI_RES_LOCK option reset when enter VentoyPlugson.
• Languages update.

Homepage – https://www.ventoy.net

Ventoy Screenshots:

Tested OS Series

• Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11,
• Windows Server 2012,  2012 R2, 2016, 2019, 2022, WinPE
• Linux
• Unix

DragonFly FreeBSD pfSense GhostBSD FreeNAS TrueNAS XigmaNAS FuryBSD OPNsense HardenedBSD MidnightBSD ClonOS EmergencyBootKit

• ChromeOS

FydeOS, CloudReady

• Other

VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer, Xen XCP-ng

Size: 15.9 MB

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