Jan 2026 Release: Pi 5 Images! DDKs! Developer Desktop Updates!
The QNX Everywhere team continues to release helpful tools and updates to further enable QNX learning and prototyping.
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Free Access to QNX Hypervisor with QNX Everywhere
QNX has made the QNX Hypervisor, used in millions of vehicles and embedded applications worldwide, free for non-commercial use through QNX Everywhere.
QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop -- Initial Release
Try out the initial release of the QNX Developer Desktop -- a self-hosted development environment for QNX. No more cross-compilation!
QNX Toolkit for VS Code 1.1 - Smarter, Faster, Seamless Development
Whether you’re new to VS Code for QNX or revisiting it, the new QVSC 1.1 offers a polished productive experience that’s worth exploring.
New QNX Training: QNX Toolkit for VS Code
Launched this week, this latest training course teaches you what you need to know about coding and debugging using the QNX Toolkit for Visual Studio Code.
QNX Everywhere on the Code The Future Podcast!
Listen to Andy and John from QNX talk about the QNX Everywhere initiative -- our push to make more and more of QNX open and free for prototyping and learning, and ultimately to get it into the hands of more engineers.
QNX From The Board Up #18 - I/O Address Space
Explore how QNX masters the specialized I/O address space, using secure I/O Privilege Levels and dedicated instructions to communicate with peripherals while protecting system memory.
QNX From The Board Up #17 - mmap() PRIVATE vs. SHARED
Dive into more internals of mmap() to understand files in memory, the semantics of MAP_PRIVATE vs. MAP_SHARED, and how these flags impact memory sharing and efficiency in QNX.
What’s It Like Working At QNX?
We sat down and talked candidly with some of our favorite QNX interns to see what they think about working at QNX.
QNX From The Board Up #16 - Let's write some utilities...
Take a quick break from memory to implement some common utilities like ls, shutdown, and uname on your own custom image. Simple, right? Right??
QNX From The Board Up #15 - Physical Memory & Video!
Learn about the relationship with physical memory addresses and how we can leverage that to finally draw something on the screen!
QNX Everywhere September Release: New Docs, Linux Porting Guide, and QNX 8.0.3!
Check out what's new in the September software release from the QNX Everywhere team.
QNX From The Board Up Series
QNX From The Board Up #14 - free()
Another quick detour to talk about free() and releasing memory.
QNX From The Board Up Series
QNX From The Board Up #13 - Virtual Addresses
Let's find the boundaries for virtual memory addresses then see what happens if you try to push past them!
QNX From The Board Up Series
QNX From The Board Up #12 - mmap(), Part 2
In this second post about memory allocation, we take a look at memory management units (MMUs), and virtual and physical addressing.
QNX From The Board Up Series
QNX From The Board Up #11 - malloc() and mmap()
Take an introductory look at mmap() to allocate memory, then use it to write your own version of malloc(). (And build a KISS version of cat for your custom image!)
QNX From The Board Up Series
QNX From The Board Up #10 - Kernel Initialization, Part 2
Enjoy this quick detour from our regularly-scheduled program for a (fun!) look at inspecting the kernel (and other processes) to see exactly what's running and how they are communicating.
QNX From The Board Up Series
QNX From The Board Up #9 - Kernel Initialization
Take a look at the relationship between the "Kernel" (aka "kernel code") and the "Kernel Process".
Hack The 6ix (2025) Recap
QNX had a great time at Hack The 6ix this year in Toronto! Here's a recap of what we saw.
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QNX at Hack The 6ix
QNX is thrilled to be sponsoring Hack The 6ix in Toronto this year. If you are participating, we'll see you there!
New Sample: Rainbow HAT with QNX
Check out the new C and Python sample code to use the Rainbow HAT with QNX.
Tutorials
QNX on Pi 400: Make your own image!
In this post we leverage the QNX 8 Custom Target Image repo for Raspberry Pi 4B to make a similar image for the Pi 400.
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Using QNX SDP 8.0 with WSL2 on Windows
There may be some advantages to using QNX within an Ubuntu WSL2 environment on Windows, depending on your use case. Learn how in this post!
QNX From The Board Up Series
QNX From The Board Up #8 - Message-based IPC, Part 2
Learn about the asynchronous side of message-based IPC on QNX: pulses.