VHD support

[Ap2023]

I find that ventoy is better than rufus, at least in theory.

I wish it was not necessary to install a plugin for vhd support. I wish that when I install ventoy on the external disk there was an option to enable support, if you really don't want to default it.
Even done this, the plugin seems to need a json configuration, the documentation is not clear on this.
Most importantly, there are two different img files in the plugin, one for windows 7 and one for windows 10+. So that I have to manually copy the file each time. I wish there was one file that supports every OS, from 95 to 11. And also support for linux vhd, which I haven't tried yet! Or at least create a json associated with each iso that chooses which img to mount.

In this regard, how do I do that with Linux?

Ventoy formatted the disk to exFat, but it seems that some versions of Windows badly support exFat, while NTFS is always fine. At this point I would like the disk to be natively formatted in NTFS!
The documentation is unclear about support for dynamic size vhd. It would be much more convenient if this were possible.

[pioj]

I differ, I think that having features separate as plugins brings modularity to Ventoy and makes it more powerful and easy to customize.

Plugins seem to be just .img disk images with scattered files inside them. Maybe you can merge a couple together and try to boot VHD from different Windows versions.

AFAIK, VHD shouldn't work for Linux installs, as the plugin looks for some file located at C:\Windows\ directory. VDI is the way to go, but unfortunately it only works with fixed size disks and there aren't tools for managing them other than VirtualBox.

I've been daily driving a Suface-like tablet device using Ventoy and dynamic VHDs for a year. I'm still testing many configurations and doing stupid things , but at some point, Windows10 messes up with the boot somehow and causes next boot to loop & fail. Guides state that fixed VHD should work fine, but I can agree it's not practical at all to have many 200GB+ images stored your disk.

[Steve2926]

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