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Windows VHD Boot Plugin
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Ventoy use this plugin to boot VHD(x) files with Windows 7+ i
How to use
it.
Get Started Both Legacy BIOS and UEFI are supported. Both fixed and
Windows
Command dynamic VHD(x) are supported.
Line
Linux GUI -- How to use
GTK/QT
Linux GUI -- Download ventoy_vhdboot.img file from
WebUI https://github.com/ventoy/vhdiso/releases
Ventoy Put the file under ventoy directory in the ventoy partition of the US
LiveCD stick, that is /ventoy/ventoy_vhdboot.img and that's all.
Secondary
boot menu Attention
Browse/Boot
Files In Local 1. There is some compatibility problem in bootmgr, so I provide
Disk different versions ventoy_vhdboot.img for you to test.
Boot Ventoy 2. Put the file in ventoy partition which hold the ISO files, don't
Vlnk File put it in the 32MB VTOYEFI partition.
About 3. You need to create the ventoy directory manually, because
Secure Boot there is no such directory by default.
Memdisk 4. For Windows 10 v1803 and previous versions, the partition
Mode storing VHD(X) files must be formatted as NTFS file system.
TreeView 5. For Windows 10 v1809+, in addition to NTFS, VHD(X) files ca
Mode also be stored in the exFAT partition.
IA32 UEFI You can refer to: http://bbs.c3.wuyou.net/forum.php?
Support mod=viewthread&tid=414354&mobile=no or:
ARM64 UEFI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZZ0DSGrXSM
Support Generally, the hard disk is recommended to use NTFS forma
the USB drive is recommended to use exFAT format.
MIPS64
UEFI 6. Better to use traditional method to confirm that the VHD(x) fi
Support can be booted normally before use Ventoy to boot it.
Ventoy 7. In UEFI mode, only 64 bit Windows is supported, 32 bit is NO
Search supported.
Configuration
About
OpenWrt
About
WIMBOOT
Mode
About
GRUB2
 Mode
When
Ventoy2Disk.exe
Failed To
Install
When
Ventoy2Disk.exe
Failed To
Update
About the
Github CI
release
About
FydeOS/CloudReady
Inject files to
Linux Live Why not out-of-box support
OS
Replace ISO This feature was not integrated by Ventoy. The main considerations
boot menu
are:
background
1. bootmgr, etfsboot.com ... These files in ventoy_vhdboot.img are
About
VentoyAutoRun.batNOT open source, they are directly extracted from Windows ISO file
About file 2. Easy to update ventoy_vhdboot.img separately
checksum 3. Easy to customize ventoy_vhdboot.img
Non-
destructive
Installation
About USB Boot Windows VHD(x) at local disk by Ventoy
hardware
problem The manual above is for copy the VHD(x) file to the USB drive and
Special boot with Ventoy. You can also boot a VHD(x) file in local disk by
identifier in Ventoy.
ISO name
Delete
Ventoy Method 1
Secure Boot Please refer Boot Image Files In Local Disk
Key
Ventoy Menu
Method 2
Multi-
Language You can also use a custom boot menu to boot the VHD(x) file at loca
Ventoy Ctrl disk by Ventoy.
Settings Please refer Menu Extension Plugin for details about the custom bo
Menu
menu.
How Ventoy
works Add a menu like follows to ventoy_grub.cfg, only need to change
my_vhd_path to the absolute path of the actual file (from the root of
Ventoy
Composition that partition).
Disk Layout
In MBR
Disk Layout
In GPT
Ventoy MBR
& GPT
About
Legacy BIOS
Limitation
About Fuzzy
Screen for
WinPE
Ventoy
Plugin
Plugin
Entrypoint
VentoyPlugson
Multi-Mode
Option
About Path
Matching
Global
Control
Plugin
Image
List menuentry "Boot My Windows VHD" {
Plugin set my_vhd_path="/VhdDir/Win10.vhd"
Theme
Plugin if search -n -s vdiskhd -f "$my_vhd_path"; then
vhdboot_common_func "($vdiskhd)$my_vhd_path"
Menu
else
Class
echo "$my_vhd_path not found"
Plugin
fi
Menu }
Alias
Plugin
Menu In this example, my_vhd_path is set to /VhdDir/Win10.vhd you can
Tip change it to your customized path (e.g. set
Plugin
my_vhd_path="/images/Win10H2.vhdx" ).
Menu
You don't need to specify which HD the file is on. It will use search
Extension
Plugin command to enumerate all the HDs to find the file.
Auto Attention that the following formats are INVALID:
Installation set my_vhd_path="(hd1,1)/VhdDir/Win10.vhd"
Plugin set my_vhd_path="E:\VhdDir\Win10.vhd"
Injection set my_vhd_path="\VhdDir\Win10.vhd"
Plugin
Persistence
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Wimboot
Plugin
Windows
Vhdboot
Plugin
Linux
vDisk
boot
Plugin
Auto
Memdisk
Plugin
Boot
Conf
Replace
Plugin
Driver
Update
Disk
Plugin
Password
Plugin
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passed to
OS
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