QNX Technical Articles
QNX Hypervisor 2.2 Amazon Machine Image: Release Notes
Date of this edition: June 25, 2024
The QNX Hypervisor 2.2 Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a reference image of the QNX Hypervisor 2.2 for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The QNX Hypervisor 2.2 AMI contains the foundational VirtIOs to virtualize guests. This AMI is intended for development purposes only.
Target cloud service
You can access the QNX Hypervisor 2.2 AMI by signing into Amazon Web Services (AWS) at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
For details on the Guest OSs, Development host OSs, and Build environments, go to the QNX® Hypervisor 2.2: Release Notes at https://www.qnx.com/developers/articles/rel_6826_1.html.
Contents
What's in this release
The QNX Hypervisor 2.2 AMI contains the QNX Hypervisor 2.2 kernel image for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment and the foundational VirtIOs to virtualize guests. The AMI include the following binaries:
- vdev-pci-dummy.so
- vdev-pl011.so
- vdev-ser8250.so
- vdev-virtio-blk.so
- vdev-virtio-console.so
- vdev-virtio-entropy.so
- vdev-virtio-net.so
- vdev-wdt-sp805.so
- vdev-progress.so
- vdev-shmem.so
- vdev-smmu.so
- qvm
- qvm-check
This AMI contains the latest version of qvm and virtual devices that are compatible with QNX Hypervisor 2.2 release. For general information about the QNX Hypervisor 2.2, go to the QNX Hypervisor 2.2: Release Notes at https://www.qnx.com/developers/articles/rel_6826_1.html.
Known issues
The QNX AMI has no known issues.
For the QNX Hypervisor 2.2 issues, go to the
QNX® Hypervisor 2.2: Release Notes - Known Issues
at
https://www.qnx.com/developers/articles/rel_6826_1.html#known_issues.
Getting started with the documentation
The QNX website contains the following documentation related to the QNX Hypervisor 2.2 AMI:
- QNX Amazon Machine Image Technotes — Describes how to set up and configure a QNX AMI instance on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Go to https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/7.1/#com.qnx.doc.qnx_cloud/topic/about_ami.html.
- QNX Hypervisor User's Guide — Provides instructions for installing and running a QNX Hypervisor system, changing system components and configuration, and using hypervisor features such as virtual devices. Go to https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/7.1/#com.qnx.doc.hypervisor.user/topic/about.html.
- QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks User's Guide — Describes the virtualization frameworks architecture, which is based on the QNX Hypervisor. It also explains in detail the shared resource frameworks, which allow the host and guests to share multimedia content and physical devices. Go to https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/7.1/#com.qnx.doc.qavf.overview/topic/about.html.
- Licensing information — Provides QNX licensing information. Go to https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/7.1/#com.qnx.doc.copyright/topic/ic_licensing_coverpage.html.
For guides on the AWS environment, go to the AWS Documentation at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/.
Technical support
To obtain technical support for any QNX product, go to the Support area on our website https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/support. You'll find a range of support options.
For product experience and roadmap information, please contact QNX Product Management.
For Amazon technical support, go to https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/.