According to the published information, the Ventoy team has released Ventoy 1.1.07, a tool designed for creating loading USB carriers with multiple operating systems. Ventoy allows users to load OS from ISO-, WIM-, IMG-, VHD- and EFI-images without the need to unpack the image or reformat the media. Users can simply copy the ISO image to a Flash drive with the Ventoy bootloader, enabling the loading of operating systems within the images. It is easy to replace or add new ISO images by copying new files, making it convenient for testing and familiarization with various distributions and operating systems. The project code is written in C language and is distributed under the gplv3 license.
Ventoy supports loading with BIOS, IA32 UEFI, X86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI Secure Boot, and MIPS64el UEFI with MBR or GPT partition tables. It supports loading 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 1200 ISO-images, including various versions of Windows, Windows Server, Linux distributions, and BSD systems such as Freebsd, Dragonfly BSD, PFSENSE, and FREENAS.
In addition to USB carriers, Ventoy bootloader can be installed on local disks, SSDs, NVME, SD cards, and other drives that use Fat32, EXIFAT, NTFS, UDF, XFS, or Ext2/3/4 file systems. The tool also offers an automated installation mode for operating systems in a single file on a portable medium, with the option to add personalized files to the created environment. The Ventoy team has updated the tool to work with XFS file systems and addressed issues with Librelec 12.2.0, Parted Magic, and Tails 6.13+. The latest version 1.1.07 was released to replace version 1.1.06 due to an error that prevented mounting of the Ventoy ISO section after loading Linux distributions.