

But the hook is really a hard work because there are so many different OS distros and so many special cases. In order to support that ventoy must do some hook before boot. ) to find the source medium.īut with ventoy they will not find such medium because there is no such physical media and they don't know that they were booted from a virual disk. In normal case, the OS will search all the hardware storage media(CDROM/USB/HD.

Most of the morden OS's kernels will use their driver to access hardware after boot, so the virtual disk will not be visible to them. In most case it works only in bootloader period. From the document you can see that ventoy will create a virtual disk from the iso file and boot it.īut the virtual disk is only on BIOS(Legacy or UEFI) level.
