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QNX Hypervisor
The QNX Hypervisor allows you to run multiple OSs on a target system so you can separate critical and non-critical functions, support a wide variety of applications, and reduce hardware costs.
QNX Hypervisor for Safety User's Guide
Booting and Shutting Down
This chapter describes how to boot and shut down a QNX hypervisor system.

QNX Momentics IDE User's Guide
This User's Guide describes version 7.1 of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that's part of the QNX Momentics tool suite.
QNX Software Development Platform
QNX SDP is a cross-compiling and debugging environment, including an IDE and command-line tools, for building binary images and programs for target boards running QNX Neutrino 7.1.
QNX Hypervisor
The QNX Hypervisor allows you to run multiple OSs on a target system so you can separate critical and non-critical functions, support a wide variety of applications, and reduce hardware costs.
- QNX Hypervisor for Safety User's Guide
  - Understanding QNX Virtual Environments
    QNX hypervisors are designed to meet the expectations of a hypervisor specified by the Popek/Goldberg Theorem.
  - QNX Hypervisor for Safety: Protection Features
    This chapter explains the main features used by the QNX Hypervisor for Safety to protect itself and its guests. Many of these features are part of the design, while others are configurable.
  - Configuration
    A QNX hypervisor, its qvm processes that create the VMs in which guests run, and these guests must be configured to work together.
  - Building a QNX Hypervisor for Safety system
    This chapter explains how to build (assemble) a QNX Hypervisor for Safety system and transfer a bootable image to a supported target platform.
  - Booting and Shutting Down
    This chapter describes how to boot and shut down a QNX hypervisor system.
    - Booting the QNX hypervisor host
      You can boot and run the QNX hypervisor host without booting any guests.
    - Starting VMs
      When you start a VM, you can either enter all of the configuration information in the command line, or point the qvm process at a configuration file.
    - Starting and using guests
    - Shutting down guests
    - Shutting down the QNX hypervisor
  - Using Virtual Devices, Networking, and Memory Sharing
    This chapter describes how guests can discover and connect to vdevs and how they can use important hypervisor capabilities, such as networking and memory sharing.
  - Monitoring and Troubleshooting
    This chapter describes some tools and techniques you can use to monitor and troubleshoot your hypervisor system.
  - Performance Tuning
    This chapter describes common sources of overhead in a QNX hypervisor system, and strategies for reducing this overhead and optimizing system performance.
  - VM Configuration Reference
    When you specify options to configure a qvm process, you are assembling and configuring the components of a virtual machine (VM) in which a guest will run.
  - Virtual Device Reference
    This chapter presents the virtual devices (vdevs) delivered with QNX hypervisors, and describes how to configure these vdevs.
  - Utilities and Drivers Reference
    This chapter describes the utilities and drivers delivered with the QNX hypervisor.
  - Terminology
    The following terms are used throughout the QNX hypervisor documentation.
- QNX Hypervisor for Safety Virtual Device Developer's Guide
- QNX Hypervisor for Safety Virtual Device Developer's API Reference
- QNX Hypervisor User's Guide
QNX Software in the Cloud
QNX Software in the Cloud enables developers to use the QNX software in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure (Azure).
QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks User's Guide
This User's Guide is aimed at all systems integrators and developers who want to design and build embedded systems using the QNX Advanced Virtualization Frameworks.
Typographical Conventions, Support, and Licensing
This section describes the typographical conventions used throughout the documentation and explains how to obtain technical support.

Booting and Shutting Down

This chapter describes how to boot and shut down a QNX hypervisor system.

Warning:

When you are implementing a QNX Hypervisor for Safety (QHS) system, refer to your QNX OS for Safety 2.2.1 Safety Manual and your QNX Hypervisor for Safety 2.2 Safety Manual.

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