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rostaman
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4 years ago

Questa FPGA Starter Edition Licensing Issue

I installed Questa FPGA Starter Edition and I cannot get a license for it. I have registered for the licensing site, but I still get "Account Required".
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4 years ago

So now I am where the OP was when he went private:

Can Intel please post a solution publically?

Does the license file have to be somewhere special? I tried saving to C:/flexlm but was not allowed access to save it there.

There appears to be a conflict with a Xilinx license? I need both.

C:\Users\RF>lmutil lmdiag
lmutil - Copyright (c) 1989-2019 Flexera. All Rights Reserved.
FlexNet diagnostics on Mon 1/17/2022 12:06

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License file: C:\Users\RF\AppData\Roaming/XilinxLicense\Xilinx - Copy.lic
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"XC7Z020_EMBEDDED" v2022.03, vendor: xilinxd, expiry: permanent(no expiration date)
vendor_string: rforsyth@rfimages.com,XC7Z020_EMBEDDED,software,permanent,_200503949_208823071_210739961_606
uncounted nodelocked license, locked to ethernet address "b89a2a3a225d" no expiration date

TS_OK: Checkout permitted when client is using terminal client

This is the correct node for this node-locked license
-----------------------------------------------------

Enter <CR> to continue:

I am using:

Edition Windows 10 Pro
Version 20H2
Installed on ‎4/‎7/‎2021
OS build 19042.1466
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3920.0

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4 years ago

You may want to start a new thread, since nobody has gone private on this one. I'm still going to submit my screenshots later, and I want to make sure the assistant that asked for them gets them.

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    4 years ago

    Thank you rostaman whatever you went through to get through the LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable problem would be helpful.

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      rostaman
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      4 years ago

      Sure, glad to help if I can! I just posted my info for the assistant. Let's see what happens.

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      4 years ago

      Hey RFI, I finally got it working! Before I only had the path to the subdirectory for my LM_LICENSE_FILE. I changed that to be the fully qualified filename of the license file. It still didn't work with the change to only the System environment variable, but after I modified the User one too, BOOM! Success!


      Hope it works for you too, friend.

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        4 years ago

        Thanks I am not sure what you mean by "fully qualified name" can you post a screenshot? I was only adding an env variable to User variables, I will try system variable next.