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eeleigh
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8 months ago

Questa does not run on Redhat 8.7 in a virtual machine

I'm a long time Quartus user and design partner. I have always been on Windows until now I have a requirement to run in a Virtualbox Redhat 8.7 Guest. Quartus, Programmer and the IDE all seem to run fine, but Questa FE will not start either stand alone or within Quartus 24.1 STD. I have searched the internet finding all sorts of possible solutions, but nothing works. There is nothing useful in the support portal. One entry on reddit suggested as only a possibility that there may be a problem running Questa in a virtual machine.

I have attached the screen shot when trying to run with ./vsim as suggested by some posts. The error screen, a terminal showing how it was invoked and one showing the environment with the LM_LICENSE_FILE set correctly.

If anyone has any information or suggestions, I'd be most appreciative. Thanks Much! Leigh

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  • ShengN_altera's avatar
    ShengN_altera
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    8 months ago

    Hi,


    For virtual machine, are you using fixed license? Please try to use float license instead


    Thanks,

    Regards,

    Sheng


    • eeleigh's avatar
      eeleigh
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      8 months ago
      Thanks much, I'll try it in the morning.
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      eeleigh
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      8 months ago

      Can't figure out how to change fixed license to floating in Self Service Licensing Center.

  • sstrell's avatar
    sstrell
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    8 months ago

    Is it a new license file? Not expired? And pointing to the correct MAC address for the VM?

  • eeleigh's avatar
    eeleigh
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    8 months ago

    Hi and thanks for the reply. Not a new license and still in support. Have checked the MAC multiple times. Note, Quartus is running with the license just fine. Problem is only with Questa.

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      sstrell
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      8 months ago

      If it's not a new license file, you may need to regenerate it to add the Questa support. Are you using Quartus Lite or Standard/Pro?

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    8 months ago

    License is already setup for Questa FE, Quartus 24.1 Standard. Same license works fine for Questa FE in Windows. Note Sheng suggests trying Floating License instead of fixed.

    • sstrell's avatar
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      8 months ago

      I don't think that really matters personally.

      Very odd that Quartus works in Windows and Linux but Questa only in Windows.

      When did you generate this file? I'd still try regenerating it from the SSLC.

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    8 months ago

    Hi All,

    I was finally able to resolve this. Fixed license is fine, but the primary MAC has to be the virtual machine, it cannot be a companion ID, even though the licnse say use the companion IDs. It is ok for Quartus and Programmer, but not Questa. I still dont have it coming up from within Quartus, but I've seen a fix for that in the forums.

    Thanks,

    Leigh

    • sstrell's avatar
      sstrell
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      8 months ago

      Yeah, I always make sure the VM MAC address matches the license. It's not always the same as the real hardware MAC address.

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        8 months ago

        And it seems to have to be the primary, not one of the companions in the license.

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    eeleigh
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    8 months ago

    I am mostly there and the last issue is minor... I still can't invoke Questa from Quartus and it seems to be a missing file. I tried reinstalling everything, but still not working. Here is the error from the Nativelink log.

    Info: Using NativeLink to launch synthesis Tool
    Synthesis tool <None> is not supported by NativeLink
    Error: NativeLink flow failed to complete synthesis

    ================The following information is provided to Debug NativeLink Script=================
    Nativelink TCL script failed with errorCode: POSIX ENOENT {no such file or directory}
    Nativelink TCL script failed with errorInfo: couldn't open "/home/eeleigh/altera/24.1std/quartus/linux64/tclIndex": no such file or directory
    while executing
    "open [file join $dir tclIndex]"
    PATH Environment Variable is set to : /home/eeleigh/altera/24.1std/quartus/adm:/home/eeleigh/altera/24.1std/quartus/linux64:/home/eeleigh/.local/bin:/home/eeleigh/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

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      8 months ago

      Thanks much! that did it. At this point everything works...