Launching a New QNX Amazon Machine Image Instance

This section describes how to use the Amazon EC2 Console to create and launch a QNX AMI instance.

Launching a new QNX AMI instance

Launching a QNX AMI instance follows similar tasks in Step 1: Launch an instance in https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EC2_GetStarted.html, but with a QNX-specific change:
  • Under Application and OS Images (Amazon Machine Image), search for QNX, choose AWS Marketplace AMIs, then choose the desired QNX AMI. This is the operating system (OS) image for your instance.
Check the following configurations:
  • Under Network settings, choose Edit. Check that you have the appropriate VPC and security group. If you want public IP access, for Auto-assign public IP, select Enable.
  • Under Storage(volumes), choose Advanced to reveal the EBS Volumes details. Open the volume details and check that Delete on termination is set to Yes.
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For useful details on each item, choose Info.
When ready, launch your QNX AMI instance.
Once the new QNX AMI instance launches, you may connect to it using the EC2 serial console or an SSH connection. Only one serial console can be active at one time for an instance and is usually reserved for debugging. Users should use SSH to connect to the instance. To allow connections from QNX Momentics IDE, run the qconn process.
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For QNX AMI instances that are booting for the first time, you may follow the prompts to input new passwords for the root user and the qnxuser user. The first prompt appears when you give keyboard focus to the EC2 serial console window and press ENTER.

The owner can reset the default password for the default user group, or set up new user groups and passwords.

You can use the QNX AMI image instance like any QNX-based system using the QNX product documentation at https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/index.html.

For details on the Amazon environment, go to the Amazon documentation at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/.

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