You might find an old archived copy of it but nothing that would be very useful if you intend to run a modern browser and other tools like that. For curiosity's sake you could.

There used to be a one-floppy installer with the desktop on it, I'm sure you could get that to work in a VM.

Lots of screenshots:

https://www.operating-system.org/betriebssystem/_english/bs-...

Docs:

https://www.mikecramer.com/qnx/qnx_6.1_docs/sysadmin/intro.h...

Unfortunately I can't seem to locate any disk images, rumor has it there was a VMWare image floating around.

You can find QNX 6.5 and suitable license keys by digging around on the web a bit. 6.5 is probably the last version suitable for use as a desktop OS—I believe 6.6 is where they started to remove the ability to self-host, and the GUI was completely removed by QNX 7. (It's a shame, because IMO the Photon GUI is really clever.)

Unfortunately QNX 6.5 is pretty old and not too well-supported (QNX is fully POSIX-compliant so you can sometimes get things working on it without too much trouble however) but it's damn fantastic to play around with in a VM. It's actually so fun.

Apparently not really: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24346411

It was once. I still have a machine in the closet with QNX 6.1 and the Photon GUI. It has a version of Firefox so old it's called Firebird. But after Blackberry bought QNX, they made it closed source and no longer self-hosting. Today you have to cross-compile from Windows.

Grr.

Absolutely. The thing you need to be asking for is a hobbyist license, which might not always be advertised but is very much a thing!

I emailed QNX a couple years ago about hobbyist or non-commercial licenses and they replied that they no longer offer them.