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Quartus and Windows 10

Altera_Forum
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Since Windows 10 will be released in the upcoming weeks I am wondering if some people have used a testversion of W10 with Quartus and Modelsim and what their experiences are. In other words do they both work on Windows 10?

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Altera_Forum
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Q15 works fine

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ok, thanks.

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Thank you for sharing this info. I have not yet have Windows 10 now but soon will get it installed.

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Q15 works fine 

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Quartus Prime 15.1 (and 14.1) also tested with Win 10 OS. 

 

However, if you also use Altera EDS-SOC 15.1/ ARM DS5, I experienced the following problem: 

 

building an officially released bare-metal sw example e.g. altera-socfpga-hardwarelib-fpga-cv-gnu the cygwin shell gives some fatal errors like: 

arm-altera-eabi-objdump -d hwlib.axf > hwlib.axf.objdump 8 sh 6492 c:\altera\15.1\embedded\host_tools\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error in forked process - fork: can't reserve memory for parent stack 0x600000 - 0x800000, (child has 0x400000 - 0x600000), win32 error 487 243 sh 6492 cygwin_exception::open_stackdumpfile: dumping stack trace to sh.exe.stackdump 8 sh 4080 fork: child -1 - forked process 6492 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11 /usr/bin/sh: fork: retry: no child processes 

etc. 

 

This error above is also with ARM DS5 14.1. 

Any help to solve this problem is greatly appreciated. 

Thanks: 

 

Zsolt
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Altera_Forum
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https://www.altera.com/support/support-resources/download/os-support.html 

 

again,, this had been highlight a couple of times,,, windows 10 is not in the list until today. why don't just use those that had been tested?
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[url]why don't just use those that had been tested? 

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Not everyone has the luxury of having multiple OS'. Where I come from you have to really look for non-10 systems.
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Altera_Forum
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You could always install a supported version of linux... that is free. 

You could even run it inside a virtual machine on your windows machine.
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You could always install a supported version of linux... that is free. 

You could even run it inside a virtual machine on your windows machine. 

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Tricky - 

 

What, if any, performance penalty would you expect running Quartus in a linux VM on a Windows machine vs. native linux on the same machine? 

 

Thanks, 

Bob
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Tricky - 

 

What, if any, performance penalty would you expect running Quartus in a linux VM on a Windows machine vs. native linux on the same machine? 

 

Thanks, 

Bob 

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No Idea - you'd have to ask Altera about that. 

But Ive run Quartus in a Linux VM on a Linux server - works just fine.
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