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1 On the Download page, choose the .zip file for Windows and download it to your development system.
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3 Go to the bin subfolder, locate the vstor2install.bat script, and double-click to run it. The batch script should be run in place so that the current directory for execution is the bin subfolder. By running it, you implicitly accept the VMware license terms.
4 Edit the Windows registry with regedit and check for the following key. If this key exists from a previous VDDK install, right-click to delete it. Add a registry entry with the following key:
5 To this key add a DWORD value named VerifySSLCertificates, setting it to 1 if you want SSL certificates to be validated, or 0 if you want to prevent SSL certificates from being validated.For convenience you might want to edit the Windows Path environment to include the VDDK installation folder, C:\Program Files\VMware\VDDK550\bin in the example above.
1 On the Download page, choose the binary tar.gz for 64-bit Linux.
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4 Read the license terms and type yes to accept them.
Software components install in /usr unless you specify otherwise.You might want to edit your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment to include the library installation path, /usr/lib/vmware-vix-disklib/lib64 for instance. Alternatively, you can add the library location to the list in /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig as the superuser.As described in Redistributing VDDK Components, partners can sign a license agreement to redistribute VDDK binaries that support VADP applications.
2 Install VMware executables and DLLs from the \bin and \lib folders of the installed VDDK, and the vstor2-mntapi10.sys driver into the Windows\system\drivers folder or equivalent.
3 Create and install your application, compiled in a manner similar to the vixDiskLibSample.exe code, discussed in Virtual Disk API Sample Code.