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Ventoy is a free and open source tool to create drives that allow you to select and boot any EFI, IMG, ISO, VHD(x), or WIM files stored on a rewriteable partition on the drive.

## Installation

Install ventoy-binAUR.

## Setup

Warning: The drive used will be erased and all its existing data will be lost after setup.

There are three utilities for setting up the media:

1. `/opt/ventoy/Ventoy2Disk.sh`, which is a shell script to be run from the command line.
2. `/opt/ventoy/VentoyGUI.x86_64`, which is a graphical application. `xauth` or a similar application is needed to escalate to root if the application is not started with root permissions.
3. Opening `file:///opt/ventoy/WebUI/index.html` with a web browser.

The same utilities can be used for upgrading the Ventoy installation on the drive.

## Usage

Ventoy creates two partitions on the drive: one to store the bootable images and another for the Ventoy binaries.

To add images from which you can boot, mount the first partition and copy the images over.

## Use without installing

If you just want to create a multi-boot drive, you can simply download the pre-built executable at the GitHub releases page. After verifying the sha256sum and unpacking, you can display the included CLI's[1] help page by running the shell script without any arguments:

    # ./ventoy-VERSION/Ventoy2Disk.sh

You can afterwards upgrade the drive for future versions by following a similar procedure. Downloading a NEWER-VERSION, verifying the sha256sum, unpacking, running

    # ./ventoy-NEWER-VERSION/Ventoy2Disk.sh

and following the on screen help message.

As an alternative to the shell .sh script mentioned here, a GTK/qt[2], and a webUI[3], are also included.

## See also

- Ventoy Documentation
- Wikipedia:Ventoy

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