Questa – Altera FPGA Edition simulator licensing

Hello Richard,

Thank you very much for your quick feedback.

I went through the link you provided above and I proceeded as follows:

- I removed LM_LICENSE_FILE env variable from my environment and I replaced it by SALT_LICENSE_SERVER, which points to the .dat license file. When doing that Questa Altera Starter FPGA Edition tried to start but I got the following errors in its gui

and a bit after this the error window below

When looking inside the license file I only find intelqsimstarter, which from your explanation above looks like the right feature.

Regarding "invalid host" error, when looking inside the license file i find the 2 lines below

which I also think are correct. PC name and relevant MAC address appear below. I realized yesterday that the MAC address corresponds to the ethernet adapter of my dock, that is, when my laptop is not connected to the dock, I don't see this ethernet adapter. Anyway i don't think this is a problem, because when running these tests I am always connected to the dock, so the relevant ethernet adapter is always present as can be seen in ipconfig /all command output below.

 Another perhaps useful feedback to narrow down the problem here is that I tried this license configuration with an older Questa starter installation (when it was called Questa-Intel instead of Questa-Altera), and for this version it works. Below you can see a screenshot of the gui when starting the simulator

 So the question is, how should I proceed to make it work for Questa Altera Starter FPGA Edition-64 2025.2?