FYI - LiveCD, Multi-boot, etc ... Ventoy

Came across this,
Although normally test this type of thing personally first, I won’t be able to get to this for at least a week… Will need to find time and scrounge up a spare USB key or disk somewhere…
So, I’ll post this with only the expectation that this should work for openSUSE based on its description, documentation, and technical parts.

Looks like a really simple (Yes!) and versatile (Yes!) way to run nearly any kind of ISO or virtualization diskfile from a removable and bootable medium (eg USB key).
No requirement to burn an image which simplifies running a LiveCD image.
Simply install on the removable media, then copy your image file to the medium.
If you install multiple image files, then they’ll all be discovered on bootup and automatically present a menu to select.

I can imagine at least the following scenarios…

  • Deploy a LiveCD image without looing for a utility to extract the image and write to medium.
  • View a virtual machine or run it on any machine without installing the HostOS application.
  • Carry and deploy different special purpose OS to perform tasks on machines not your own… Pentesting? Network Administrative tasks? Hardware testing?

Installers for both MSWindows and Linux.
And, can’t hurt that it’s open source and publicly licensed.

Ventoy.
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

TSU

It is a very good tool, have just finished a Tumbleweed install booted from a Ventoy USB key.

USB key can be used for both storage as well as booting various isos, with or without persistence. (NB. not every iso supports persistence)

Either of you heroes stumble across a path to ‘roll your own’/customized Tumbleweed LIVE per chance? I’ve been using TW as my daily driver for years now. Recently have needed to create a close facsimile LIVE version of my home desktop TW on a PNY 3.0 128GB USB to be able to fire up on the computers of the little cat rescue shelter where I’ve been volunteering few years since retirement as their defacto technologists/tech support, as needed, as their tech needs scale up with their expanded funding/growth. Their Dell towers all run m$UCK$ that irks me to no end. (I divorced from m$ in 2003, found OpenSUSE in 2004 and have never left ;]) I’d like the convenience of dropping one of these multiboot USBs into any tower w my TW daily driver OS, and/or Kali or any various rescue media for m$ pw resets and the like on the fly without being forced to deal w m$UCK$ only.