Windows VHD Boot Plugin
Ventoy use this plugin to boot VHD(x) files with Windows 7+ in it.
Both Legacy BIOS and UEFI are supported. Both fixed and dynamic VHD(x) are supported.
- How to use
Download ventoy_vhdboot.img file from https://github.com/ventoy/vhdiso/releases
Put the file under ventoy directory in the first partition of the USB stick, that is /ventoy/ventoy_vhdboot.img and that's all.
- Attention
- You need to format the partition 1 with NTFS filesystem to hold VHD(x) files.
- Better to use traditional method to confirm that the VHD(x) file can be booted normally before use Ventoy to boot it.
- Why not out-of-box support
This feature was not integrated by Ventoy. The main considerations are:
1. bootmgr, etfsboot.com ... These files in ventoy_vhdboot.img are NOT open source, they are directly extracted from Windows ISO file.
2. Easy to update ventoy_vhdboot.img separately
3. Easy to customize ventoy_vhdboot.img