Forum Discussion

BobA's avatar
BobA
Icon for New Contributor rankNew Contributor
1 year ago

Trouble licensing Questa Starter Edition

Hi, I have Quartus Prime Lite 24.1std.0. I select Tools->Run Simulation Tool->RTL Simulation and get a Fatal License Error, Unable to checkout a license. I've gotten a license file from Intel and s...
Simulation
BobA's avatar
BobA
Icon for New Contributor rankNew Contributor
1 year ago

Thank you. I added MGLS_LICENSE_FILE. Here's my environment:

I still get the Fatal License Error when starting RTL Simulation:

Here's what I see when I run lmutil lmdiag:

C:\altera\13.0sp1\quartus\bin>lmutil lmdiag
lmutil - Copyright (c) 1989-2008 Acresso Software Inc. All Rights Reserved.
FLEXnet diagnostics on Tue 7/15/2025 09:19

-----------------------------------------------------
License file: C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Roaming\LR-240159_License.dat
-----------------------------------------------------
"intelqsimstarter" v2026.06, vendor: mgcld
  uncounted nodelocked license, locked to ethernet address "10ffe03bda88"  starts: 27-jun-2025,   expires: 27-jun-2026

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

C:\altera\13.0sp1\quartus\bin>