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ganz_1
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1 year ago
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Questa License Issue

I'm trying to use Questa IntelFPGA Starter Edition 2024.1. My license file questa.dat is located at c:\license\, and I set c:\license\questa.dat to LM_LICENSE_FILE. When I launched Questa, it failed ...
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    ganz_1
    1 year ago

    It turned out there was a conflict with SALT_LICENSE_SERVER. Suggestion from the following link solved my issue.

    Solved: Re: Questa License Issue - Intel Community -- "However, if a salt_license_server enviroment variable is present, because other Siemens software has created it, Questa is only checking this variable and skipping lm_license_file and mgls_license_file variables. The solution is to add the Questa license file to the salt_license_server entry."

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ganz_1
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1 year ago

It turned out there was a conflict with SALT_LICENSE_SERVER. Suggestion from the following link solved my issue.

Solved: Re: Questa License Issue - Intel Community -- "However, if a salt_license_server enviroment variable is present, because other Siemens software has created it, Questa is only checking this variable and skipping lm_license_file and mgls_license_file variables. The solution is to add the Questa license file to the salt_license_server entry."