Ventoy Auto Installation Plugin

Many distros provide unattended deployment solution. You just need to give a script or template for the installation.
For example, unattend xml for Windows, kickstart script for Redhat/CentOS, autoYast xml for SUSE, preseed script for Debian and so on.
In normal case, if you want to make an unattended deployment, you need to recreate a new iso file based on the original iso file, and add the script or template into the new iso file.
Now Ventoy brings a new feature here. You don't need to recreate a new iso file, just use the original one. You just need to put a script or template in the USB drive and tell ventoy, that's all. You can specify more than one scripts for an iso file at a time, ventoy will provide a menu to choose before boot. You can also update these scripts whenever you want.

• Supported Distros (Updating)

In theory, as long as the distribution supports automatic installation through script or template, Ventoy can support it, but it takes time to test each one.

• Json Configuration

A auto_install array is defined to describe the auto installation configuration in /ventoy/ventoy.json.

{
    "auto_install": [
        {
            "image": "/abc/centos.iso",
            "template": "/ventoy/script/centos_kickstart.cfg"
        },
        {
            "image": "/ISO/cn_windows_server_2012_r2_vl_x64_dvd_2979220.iso",
            "template": [
                "/ventoy/script/windows_unattended1.xml",
                "/ventoy/script/windows_unattended2.xml",
                "/ventoy/script/windows_unattended3.xml",
                "/ventoy/script/windows_unattended4.xml",
                "/ventoy/script/windows_unattended5.xml",
                "/ventoy/script/windows_unattended6.xml"
            ],
            "autosel": 2
        },
        {
            "image": "/SLE-12-SP3-Server-DVD-x86_64-GM-DVD1.iso",
            "template": "/ventoy/script/suse_autoyast.xml"
        },
        {
            "image": "/ubuntu-16.04-server-amd64.iso",
            "template": "/ventoy/script/ubuntu_server.seed",
            "autosel": 1
        }
    ]
}

• Dual Mode

Supported. You can set different configurations for Legacy BIOS mode and UEFI mode. Please refer Dual Mode Option for details.

• Prompt Before Boot (1.0.12+)

When you boot an iso file with auto installation config and without autosel config, a prompt will be shown. You can choose whether to use the auto installation template and which template to use for this time.