Of course it depends on the OS but generally speaking Linuxes will auto-recognize/automount .iso files, as long as they have an entry in the MBR (that - just as

Of course it depends on the OS but generally speaking Linuxes will auto-recognize/automount .iso files, as long as they have an entry in the MBR (that - just as an example - can be done on-the-fly by grub4dos using its partnew command): http://reboot.pro/topic/9916-grub4dos-isohybrided/?p=88531 http://reboot.pro/topic/9916-grub4dos-isohybrided/?p=88531 Since all in all that happens is that a contiguous extent on disk is mapped as a partition, there is the requirement for the .iso image to be contiguous in the hosting filesystem. Ventoy goes beyond this as it virtualizes the .iso blocklist , thus allowing non-contiguous images: http://reboot.pro/topic/22277-ventoy-open-source-usb-boot-utility-for-both-bios-and-uefi/?p=214380 http://reboot.pro/topic/22277-ventoy-open-source-usb-boot-ut...