The vlnk file will be created in the current directory where you run the script. Run sudo bash VentoyVlnk.sh -c xxx.iso in terminal. You can also use VentoyVlnk.exe -i xxx.iso -o to directly generate the vlnk file, no interaction needed. You can start with VentoyVlnk.exe -s, in this way, it will prompt you for the vlnk save path after you select an ISO file. If you wish to specify you can use command line mode. (Use Parse button to show the vlnk infomartion)īy default, you cannot specify the name of the vlnk file created by VentoyVlnk.exe. The vlnk file will be created at the same directory with VentoyVlnk.exe. Open VentoyVlnk.exe, click Create button, just select an image file in local disk。 2.1 Create vlnk file for image file in local disk.Notes: Since 1.0.67, you can press F2 to browser and boot files in local disk.īut you can not apply plugins in this way. It can be a HDD/SSD or another USB device. Notes: Here the local disk is a relative concept, it can be any disk except that which the Ventoy installed. We create a small vlnk file for an image file in local disk (just like the file softlink) and then copy the vlnk file to Ventoy disk to boot. In order to adapt to the current solution, reduce the workload and be compatible with all the plugins, Ventoy uses a special method to support this feature. Since 1.0.66, Ventoy supports to boot image files (.iso/.wim/.img. For example, the ISO has been downloaded to the local hard disk, but it needs to be copied again, USB disk has a low speed, and so on.

This is not very convenient in some cases.

That is to say, you must copy ISO/WIM/VHD(x)/IMG/EFI files to the Ventoy disk to boot them. So Ventoy has always only supported to boot the image files in the disk where Ventoy installed. Ventoy was originally designed and developed as a bootable USB tool.

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