[issue]: Install Ventoy to file.

[will-ca]

Official FAQ

• I have checked the official FAQ.

Ventoy Version

1.0.97

What about latest release

Yes. I have tried the latest release, but the bug still exist.

What happened?

It would be good to be able to install Ventoy directly to a file serving as a disk image:

$ truncate -s 8G FakeDisk.iso
$ ventoy -I FakeDisk.iso 

**********************************************
      Ventoy: 1.0.97  x86_64
      longpanda admin@ventoy.net
      https://www.ventoy.net
**********************************************

FakeDisk.iso is NOT a valid device

Such a disk image could then be burned to multiple real USB devices, attached to a VM, exposed as a loop device, etc.

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[catherinedoyel]

I have already figured out how to do that. ISO format doesn't work very well for virtualizing a block device. I have already created IMG disk image files available at catherinedoyel/ventoyimg

[will-ca]

Byte-by-byte, it should be equivalent to installing to a loop device, no? Only I don't want to mount a loop device and then run Ventoy as superuser to do it.

[catherinedoyel]

Why is mounting loop and running as root an issue? The issue is the need to create file systems on the disk.