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A VDDK-Independent Stack for Migrating VMware Workloads
In late August 2026, every public download page for VMware's Virtual Disk Development Kit started returning a 404, with no deprecation notice and no replacement. Your backups are almost certainly fine, because the vendors who need VDDK bundle it inside their own installers. Your exit is what got harder, and VMware has now said in public that migrating to another platform is not a licensed use of the library. Here are four guest-level approaches that remove the dependency, the real trade-offs of each, and the four practices that decide whether any of them work.
Sep 11, 2026