AppImage Request: Ventoy

[thisisarnabdas]

AppImage Request: Ventoy

App Name: Ventoy
Website: https://www.ventoy.net
Source / Upstream: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy
Latest Release: v1.1.12 — https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases/tag/v1.1.12
License: GPLv3

Description

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drives from ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. Unlike traditional approaches, you simply copy image files onto the USB drive and Ventoy presents a boot menu — no reformatting needed between updates. It supports x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, and ARM64 UEFI, and has been tested with 1100+ ISO files.

Why an AppImage?

Ventoy currently only provides official Linux builds as .tar.gz, with no native package formats. An AppImage would make Ventoy more accessible and enable efficient delta updates via zsync.

Upstream Release Page

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/releases

Additional Notes

• Ventoy is actively maintained and releases frequently

Thank you for considering this request! 🙏

[Samueru-sama]

This will be hard since Ventoy requires root to perform some operations, it also ships several individual binaries.

It is possible, but this will take a while and won't be ready in weeks, I will also need you to carry tests during all that time, are you willing to do that?

[thisisarnabdas]

Hey @Samueru-sama, thanks for looking into it!

I don't think it's worth the hassle honestly. The bash script with the WebUI works really well as is, and given the root requirement plus multiple binaries, the effort seems disproportionate. I'd rather not have you spend weeks on this when there are other requests that might need more attention.

Feel free to close this one, no hard feelings!

[shuvashish76]

some history about ventoy:

• [issue]: Remove BLOBs from the source tree ventoy/Ventoy#2795
• About the BLOBs in Ventoy ventoy/Ventoy#3224

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ventoy
This thing is a packaging nightmare!! The upstream build system is especially distro unfriendly (build on Centos 7...WTF?). Building from source to proper Arch standards is "interesting" to say the least.