Leaving VMware Just Got Harder After Broadcom Pulled VDDK Downloads

Broadcom has taken down all public download pages for VMware’s Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK), returning 404 errors and confirming via support tickets that the library is no longer available for general use. The removal blocks migration tools such as Azure Migrate, Red Hat Migration Toolkit, Nutanix Move, VMware-to-KVM, virtv2v and nbdkit. ShapeBlue reported the loss on August 25 2026, noting that both VDDK 8 and VDDK 9 URLs are inaccessible and that Broadcom issued no public announcement or replacement.