Example designs for communicating two Altera boards

Dear Dave,

I just found out that our NIC with SFP+ connector is the second one you found:

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=n82e16833120384

And it does only support Window Server among Windows OSs. We may have to decide whether:

1-Buy new NIC(s) that support Windows 7/vista or XP so that we can use Quartus II in Windows. But this seems to be an expensive choice.

2-Change to use Quartus II in Linux OS, but I did not have experience with this OS and this would be hard choice for me.

3-Keep using Windows Server 2008. But first, try to fix the issue for Qsys generation with On-chip memory cores. However, this is not a Quartus supported OS, so I don't know if I should try this direction.

Do you have any further advice?

I am more prone to the third option right now. Regarding the issue, you have suggested me to check the Java Runtime:

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It looks like your script output stops right around the time Java is started. Perhaps Java on Windows Server 2008 is broken.

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I suspected that the current jre of Quartus has problems. So, I have installed newest Java 7 and replaced the content of C:\altera\11.1\quartus\bin64\jre64 with C:\Program Files\Java\jre7. But this does not help. If you have any further ideas about how to check and fix this issue?

Thank you very much.

PLMT