ventoy/Ventoy
A new bootable USB solution.
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Where it stands
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1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 23 days ago, with 124 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Creates bootable USB drives that can directly boot multiple ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files without repeated formatting.
- Eliminates the need to repeatedly format USB drives by allowing multiple bootable images to coexist with a dynamic boot menu.
- Use for creating multi-boot USB drives to test or install various operating systems including Windows, Linux, Unix, and ChromeOS.
- Use for automating unattended OS installations on multiple machines using Windows and Linux auto-installation support.
- Use for secure boot environments supporting UEFI Secure Boot on diverse architectures like x86, ARM64, and MIPS64EL.
Should you depend on it?
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License
GPL 3.0
Copyleft: distributing software that includes it generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
- GPL-style copyleft: including it in distributed software generally requires releasing your source under the same license.
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From the README
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, just copy the image files to the USB drive and boot them. You can copy many image files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them.
You can also browse ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files in local disk and boot them.
x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI are supported in the same way.
Both MBR and GPT partition style are supported in the same way.
Most type of OS supported(Windows/WinPE/Linux/Unix/ChromeOS/Vmware/Xen...)
1200+ ISO files are tested (List). 90%+ distros in distrowatch.com supported (Details).
Windows Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2025, WinPE
Daily snapshots
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Forks
5.0K+151
Open issues
1.0K+6
Compared with peers in Developer Tools
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| stablyai/orca | 121.4K | +6.7K | 75 | today |
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| herdrdev/herdr | 50.0K | +2.1K | 75 | 27 days ago |
| max-sixty/worktrunk | 12.4K | +1.9K | 75 | 21 days ago |
| ventoy/Ventoy | 80.5K | — | 54 | 23 days ago |
| Category median | 121.4K | +4.3K | 75 | — |
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