Andrija Panić releases OpenVDDK after VMware blocks VDDK

Cloud architect Andrija Panić has created OpenVDDK, an open-source alternative to VMware's Virtual Disk Development Kit after VMware restricted public downloads of the tool in August. Written in Go with a C layer, OpenVDDK acts as a drop-in disk library replacement to help developers read virtual machine disks for backup and migration purposes. Panić released the project under an Apache license, and independent testers have already reported successful production migrations. Open article →