Support for Virtual Machines by Cadence License Manager

Cadence has been supporting virtual machines to serve as Cadence License servers for many years now. You need to work with your Cadence Account Manager and identify a VM system, whether it is on-premises or in the cloud.

Ensure that you are using supported operating systems like Windows 10/11/2019/2022 and Linux RHEL 8.4/9 and SUSE 15. Cadence supports only server VMs such as VMware ESX, Citrix XEN, and so on for local deployments. For cloud deployments, Cadence supports Amazon EC2 or Google Compute Engine. Desktop VMs such as Virtual Box, Parallels, VMware desktop, etc. are not supported.

Use mfp as per its help output:

mfp /?

mfp 24.01-s001

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Run mfp with no options for non-cloud platforms.

Cloud options available:

-cl aws: Generate mfp files for the Amazon EC2 platform

-cl gce: Generate mfp files for the Google Compute Engine platform

-cl azure: Generate mfp files for the Microsoft Azure platform

Please note that the command will generate two files that you need to share with your Cadence Account Manager to generate the license file.

You also need to run ./lmutil lmhostid -ETHER on Linux and lmutil.exe lmhostid -ETHER on Windows to extract the correct hostid ( Network card’s physical address). Please note that hostid does not mean the output of the hostid command on Linux.

At the time of writing this post, Windows 2025 server is not supported.