About These Technotes

These technotes describe how to set up and configure an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to run QNX OS or Hypervisor.

These technotes assume the following:

You have an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. Sign into AWS at https://aws.amazon.com/.
You're familiar with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) user guides at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ec2/index.html.
You have the organizational resources required to access the AWS environment.
You installed the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP), including the QNX Momentics tool suite, on your host.
You're familiar with the following documents:
- QNX Neutrino User's Guide
- QNX Momentics IDE User's Guide

Chapters

These technotes contain the following topics:

Chapter:	Description:
Launch a New QNX AMI	Create and launch a new QNX AMI instance
Connect to an Existing QNX AMI	Connect to a QNX AMI instance with SSH or the QNX Momentics IDE
Customize your QNX AMI	Customize your QNX AMI instance
Manage your Amazon Resources	Learn about AMI lifecycles, key pairs, security groups, storage, and VPCs

The following resources provide information when you're using a QNX Hypervisor AMI:

Resource:	Description:
QNX Hypervisor User's Guide — “Building guests” and “Starting and using guests”	Explains the hypervisor architecture, system, and features; and also contains instructions about building and launching guest OSs
QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks User's Guide	Explains the shared resource frameworks, which lets the hypervisor host and guests share content (e.g., graphics, video, audio, input devices, and USB devices)