Ventoy and Windows 11 VHD

[nicolasnobelis]

Hello,

I would like to create a portable installation of Windows 11 on a USB stick.

I followed various tutorials (in particular https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_vhdboot.html) but I am running into problems.

What I did:

• I created a VHD disk image with VirtualBox. I installed Windows 11 on it and restarted the Virtual machine several times
• I formatted a USB stick to NTFS
• with VentoyGUI.x86_64, I installed Ventoy with GPT and Secure Boot enabled
  
• the USB stick now has 2 partitions:

Device        Start      End  Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1      2048 59998167 59996120 28,6G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda2  59998168 60063703    65536   32M Microsoft basic data

• in sda1, I copy the VHD to the root: Windows 11.vhd. The MD5 checksums (after remounting the USB stick) match.
• Then I created a folder ventoy with:
  • ventoy_vhdboot.img taken from https://github.com/ventoy/vhdiso/releases/download/v3.0/ventoy_vhdboot.zip (I chose Win10Based)
  • a ventoy_grub.cfg containing:

menuentry "Boot My Windows VHD" {    
    set my_vhd_path="Windows 11.vhd"
    
    if search -n -s vdiskhd -f "$my_vhd_path"; then
        vhdboot_common_func "($vdiskhd)$my_vhd_path"
    else
        echo "$my_vhd_path not found"
    fi
}

Now my motherboard has "secure boot" disabled and set to run in "legacy OS" mode.

I boot from the USB stick in UEFI mode and Ventoy starts (I see UEFI written bottom left).
I can select Boot My Windows VHD but then I get a Windows error:

Has anyone an idea what is happening ?
Does Ventoy support Windows11 or only Windows10 ?

[steve6375]

Did you boot the VM in UEFI mode and install windows in UEFI mode?

Did you try just booting from the Ventoy menu?

[nicolasnobelis]

Did you boot the VM in UEFI mode and install windows in UEFI mode?

^ these are the settings I used in VirtualBox so I guess yes ?

Did you try just booting from the Ventoy menu?

I tried to select the VHD file in the Ventoy file browser, same error.

[nicolasnobelis]

Exact same steps as above but with Windows 10 work without problem.

[normanade]

Same issue here. Same setting, same win11, same secure boot, same error. Haven't tried win10 yet

[dfgshdsfh]

I have exact same issue

[pilotkate22]

I have the same issue. Works on Windows 10, but fails on Windows 11. Does anyone know a fix?

[SGr33n]

Just disable TPM and it will work like a charm.

[gaglians]

Same exact problem here, cannot boot Windows 11 with the same error screen. Just to add, I'm trying to boot from my external SSD, so not sure if it is related. I have tried disabling SecureBoot, disabling the TPM, disabling both. Nothing works.

[SGr33n]

Just for clarification, to make it work you must use a Windows installed without TPM, so you have to edit the related LabConfig reg key during the installation. Then it will work.

[gaglians]

It worked, thanks. Can’t believe it was so easy…