Relevant comment from author (lukego) in this thread of few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7250505#up_7251722 https://news.ycombinator.com/ite

Relevant comment from author (lukego) in this thread of few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7250505#up_7251722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7250505#up_7251722 "I'm the Snabb Switch originator. The project is new: I and other open source contributors are currently under contract to build a Network Functions Virtualization platform for Deutsche Telekom's TeraStream project [1] [2]. This is called Snabb NFV [3] and it's going to be totally open source and integrated with OpenStack. Currently we are doing a lot of virtualization work from the "outside" of the VM: implementing Intel VMDq hardware acceleration and providing zero-copy Virtio-net to the VMs. So the virtual machine will see normal Virtio-net but we will make that operate really fast. Inside the VMs we can either access a hardware NIC directly (via IOMMU "PCI passthrough") or we can write a device driver for the Virtio-net device. So, early days, first major product being built, and lots of potential both inside and outside VMs, lots of fantastic products to build with nobody yet building them :-)"