Ventoy v1.0.63 released 2021-12-20 (changes and downloads at
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases).
Ventoy development is proceeding at brisk pace -- my highlight would go to the experimental "
non-destructive Installation" feature, supported since v1.0.59.
FYI, I am currently using
Ventoy to dual-boot Windows and a couple of Linux flavors in a new laptop meant to replace my aging x220 with some pretty good results.
Furthermore,
Ventoy is also a fast and easy way to test a Windows 11 environment for free...
- E.g., download a VirtualBox image from the official site (~20GB! Usually only good for 90 days! URL below), extract, drop the virtual disk file in the Ventoy boot drive and, presto, you're up and running!
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VM info via:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft ... -download/
https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-i ... 7cbc05888e
EDIT: In my forever quest for expedite ways to boot so-called legacy Windows 7, I tested the "
IE11.Win7.VirtualBox.zip" from the second download link above and sadly have only a failure to report -- the process was somewhat convoluted, as the the file inside that ZIP is an OVA (Open Virtualization Format), which
Ventoy doen't officially support; As it turns out
OVA is a just common TAR.GZ archive which can easily be extracted by most archiving utilities, after which one is left with
VMDK, a
VMware Disk file image, still unsupported; But it so happens that shareware
Winimage can readily convert it to VHD, which is finally fully supported; in the end, I was unable to boot the resulting image with
Ventoy, no doubt on account of internal
NVMe storage, which is unsupported by Windows 7 this time, at least without special drivers, obviously absent from this setup. Oh, well...
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