Add openvixdisklib as an open NBD replacement for VMware VDDK.

VDDK is no longer publicly distributed, so this library reverse-engineers the vSphere NFC path and exposes ConnectEx, Open, Read, and Write without the proprietary SDK. Co-authored-by: Cursor <[email protected]>
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+# Copyright 2026 Cloudbase Solutions Srl
+# All Rights Reserved.
+
+"""Exercise NFC disk open and a one-sector write/read against the lab."""
+
+from openvixdisklib import nfc_open
+from tests.integration.base import TestBase
+
+
+class NfcOpenTest(TestBase):
+    def test_open_disk_and_read_first_sector(self) -> None:
+        """Open the temp VMDK, write sector 0, and read it back."""
+        expected = self.pattern_bytes(self.SECTOR_SIZE, b"NFC-OPEN-S0")
+        with self.authenticate(read_only=False) as session:
+            with nfc_open.open_disk(
+                    session, self.DISK_PATH, read_only=False) as disk:
+                self.assertEqual(disk.path, self.DISK_PATH)
+                self.assertGreater(disk.handle, 0)
+                self.assertEqual(disk.sector_size, self.SECTOR_SIZE)
+                disk.write(0, 1, expected)
+                got = disk.read(0, 1)
+                self.assertIsNot(got, expected)
+                self.assertEqual(got, expected)