diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 35f4f1d..1bb7636 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
 'static-hosting'                  : '-DBMCWEB_ENABLE_STATIC_HOSTING',
 'insecure-tftp-update'            : '-DBMCWEB_INSECURE_ENABLE_REDFISH_FW_TFTP_UPDATE',
 'validate-unsecure-feature'       : '-DBMCWEB_ENABLE_VALIDATION_UNSECURE_FEATURE',
-'vm-nbdproxy'                     : '-DBMCWEB_ENABLE_VM_NBDPROXY',
+#'vm-nbdproxy'                     : '-DBMCWEB_ENABLE_VM_NBDPROXY',
 'vm-websocket'                    : '-DBMCWEB_ENABLE_VM_WEBSOCKET',
 }
 
diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index 1298b96..5e5f7b5 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,14 @@
 option('kvm', type : 'feature',value : 'enabled', description : 'Enable the KVM host video WebSocket.  Path is \'/kvm/0\'.  Video is from the BMC\'s \'/dev/video\' device.')
 option ('tests', type : 'feature', value : 'enabled', description : 'Enable Unit tests for bmcweb')
 option('vm-websocket', type : 'feature', value : 'enabled', description : '''Enable the Virtual Media WebSocket. Path is \'/vm/0/0\'to open the websocket. See https://github.com/openbmc/jsnbd/blob/master/README.''')
-option('vm-nbdproxy', type: 'feature', value : 'disabled', description : 'Enable the Virtual Media WebSocket.')
+
+# if you use this option and are seeing this comment, please comment here:
+# https://github.com/openbmc/bmcweb/issues/188 and put forward your intentions
+# for this code.  At this point, no daemon has been upstreamed that implements
+# this interface, so for the moment this appears to be dead code;  In leiu of
+# removing it, it has been disabled to try to give those that use it the
+# opportunity to upstream their backend implementation
+#option('vm-nbdproxy', type: 'feature', value : 'disabled', description : 'Enable the Virtual Media WebSocket.')
 option('rest', type : 'feature', value : 'enabled', description : '''Enable Phosphor REST (D-Bus) APIs. Paths directly map Phosphor D-Bus object paths, for example, \'/xyz/openbmc_project/logging/entry/enumerate\'. See https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/rest-api.md.''')
 option('redfish', type : 'feature',value : 'enabled', description: 'Enable Redfish APIs.  Paths are under \'/redfish/v1/\'. See https://github.com/openbmc/bmcweb/blob/master/DEVELOPING.md#redfish.')
 option('host-serial-socket', type : 'feature', value : 'enabled', description : 'Enable host serial console WebSocket. Path is \'/console0\'.  See https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/console.md.')