All, 6WIND is releasing the source code of librte_pmd_virtio under a BSD license.
It is available at: http://dpdk.org/browse/virtio-net-pmd/snapshot/virtio-net-pmd-1.0.tar.gz git://dpdk.org/virtio-net-pmd It allows running any DPDK application into a Linux guest using the virtio-net vNIC such as QEMU provides for a Linux/KVM hypervisor. It has been mainly used with testpmd and the 6WINDGate's fast path. It uses the dynamically loadable PMD framework: testpmd [..] -d librte_pmd_virtio.so [..] More information and documentation are available into: http://dpdk.org/browse/virtio-net-pmd/tree/README.rst -- Thomas 6WIND