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zekimohammed3
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3 years ago
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Questa License Issue

Hello there, I am having an issue were I am using Questa version 22.1 to simulate for Quartus version 22.1. I am getting the issue where it says, unable to checkout a viewer license necessary for u...
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    AR_A_Intel
    3 years ago

    Hello,

    Good day

    Apologize for the inconvenience happen, there are some technical issues due to upgrading proses. Now the license generator issue has been resolved. Login to https://licensing.intel.com/ to get your new license file and let us know how it goes.


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FvM
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2 years ago
Hello,
I know that various problems with empty or non-functional Questa license files have been reported. I experienced a situation where a newly generated license wasn't recognized by Questa Intel Starter Edition. As it turned out, the license was correct, but there's an yet undocumented problem with license installation. According to installation manual, the license file shall be either listed in lm_license_file or mgls_license_file enviroment variable. This works normally. 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.

Regards,
Frank