vhd dynamically grows, but even if it’s say 10Gb but you created it with a max size of 40gb, then this partition has to be > 50gb. You can pick whatever number you want but it needs to be bigger than the max size of the. Which installed ventoy with 3 partitions: The normal ventoy partition, the hidden 30mb ventoy partition, and 50gb of unallocated space at the end. Sudo ventoy -I /dev/YOUR_PATH_HERE -r NUMBER_OF_MB_FOR_VM For this to work, we need a third partition that’s NTFS formatted for the image to boot from. Normally, Ventoy makes two partitions - an exfat partition where you can put your ISO images, and a second partition where it installs the boot magic. Then, we need to install Ventoy and leave enough room for the VM. My USB is at /dev/sda but it’ll depend on your OS. You can use your OS’s partition manager GUI, or look at the output of lsblk. Plug in your USB stick and figure out what the device name is. Warning: If you choose the wrong disk you’ll erase things you don’t intend to erase

Warning: This erases your entire USB disk Download the WD Dashboard exe to be used within the VM.Download the 64 bit wifi drivers (make sure you don’t get the 32 bit ones by accident).Download the ventoy binary (or install it with yay -S ventoy-bin).After suffering decades of mediocre USB sticks, I purchased the Kingston Datatraveler-max and could not be happier with ~1gb/s ops Have a USB stick with at least ~30GB, with decent speeds.Windows doesn’t like to install to USB’s, so we install to a VM first, and then boot straight off the vm disk image. The basic idea is I have a USB stick and want to get a working copy of windows on it just long enough to run the firmware update. I finally went through the hassle of getting my WD drivers updated.

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