QNX Hypervisor

QNX Hypervisor

QNX Hypervisor provides flexible and optimized graphics support designed for performance and safety. QNX Hypervisor makes it easier to obtain and maintain safety certifications by separating safety-critical components from non-safety critical components in separate guest operating systems.

Product Availability : AGAINST PO

FEATURES

  • Type 1 Hypervisor
  • Safety certification pedigree
  • Virtual CPU model
  • Pin to cores or share cores based on priority
  • Adaptive partitioning. Allows for CPU guarantees of guest runtime
  • 64-bit and 32-bit guests: QNX, Linux, Android, RTOS
  • Shared memory with triggering
  • VirtIO (1.0) device sharing
  • TAP and peer-to-peer networking with bridging
  • Failure detection and restart of guests
  • Virtual watchdog for guest integrity checking
  • Low overhead (typical < 2%)
  • Graphical tools for analysis and debug

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QNX Hypervisor has separate version for Safety critical application and Automotive Application purposes. 

Virtualization is supported on any Intel x86_64 VT-x and ARMv8 AArch64 hardware,including popular reference hardware such as the Intel® Atom™ C3XXX product family, Renesas R-Car, Qualcomm® Automotive Compute platforms such as SA8155, Xilinx™, Mediatek™, Texas Instruments™, and NXP® product families (i.MX8 and S32).

Emulated Devices:

  • Memory controller
  • Interrupt controller: GICv2/V3, posted interrupts (x86) 
  • Timers
  • Watchdogs (IB700, SP805)
  • VirtIO 1.X Device Support
  • Block / Net / Console / Shared memory

X86 specific :

  •     High precision timers
  •     Realtime Clock
  •     Keyboard

ARM specific :

  •     PL011 serial

Advanced Virtualization Framework* (graphics, audio …)