XILINX cse_server on win10

[cncjerry]

I used cse_sever from ISE 14.7 (pre-win10 support, october 2013 release)  on win10.  I hadn't used it in a while and yesterday I tried for over an hour to get it to work and all I get is a blank screen, no errors, no text at all.  I tried other console code too, none of it works now.  I installed in another win10 machine and that one doesn't work either. Something changed, I guess, probably a windows update.  I need it for jtag support on a spartan6.  Driver loads, but not cse_server.  Looked all over for a fix. Any ideas?  I am going to have to build a win7 machine i guess.

Thanks

Jerry

[RoGeorge]

Install VMware Player or VirtualBox, whichever you prefer, and create as many virtual machines as you need with whatever OS you may need:  Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, etc.

No need to buy anything, both VMware Player and VirtualBox are fully functional, and free for non-commercial use.  Windows has some proprietary virtualisation, too, but I don't have Windows so no idea how easy or how good that works when compared with WMware or VirtualBox.

Virtual machines will boot as if it were standalone PCs, yet they will run in a window in your current Windows 10, just as if they were ordinary windows applications.  The discs will remain untouched, virtual machines will be nothing but ordinary files in your current Win10.  They are independent and standalone, you can even cut their internet access, so to prevent a VM from further accidental upgrades to an incompatible state.  Ideal to preserve toolchains over the year, and as easy to move from one disk to another, or from one PC to another, as any other copy or move of a file would be.

You won't even need to reboot when starting/stopping virtual machines, or unplug your USB cables to ,ove them between PCs.  There is a guy inside the virtual machine window to let you assign physical devices (like the jtag adapter) to either the host Win10 or to any of guest virtual machine. 

[AK6DN]

Agree with above. I have VirtualBox 6.0.24 (https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.0.24/) on my Win7 machine that I use to run Linux in a window.
I have the latest VirtualBox 7.0.12 (https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.12/) on my Win10 machine to run both a Linux VM and a Win11 VM when I need Win11.
In the VM you can install a Win7 image should you want, or the appropriate Linux image to run the Xilinx tools you need.
A lot easier than building a bunch of PCs to run various software images.

[cncjerry]

Problem turned out to be the win10 update.  I had a machine that hadnt been turned on in a while and was still at win10 build 1909.  That one runs it ok.  I think i can now use it to run media creator and make a bootable disk to install over that "upgrade" that ruined my phase noise test set.

I have a couple servers and run UTM virtualization.  I find it to be easier to get going.  I also have virtual box on a machine.  I don't know if virtualization will work with this app as it streams data from an fpga over a dedicated gigE link.

Thanks for the pointers.

Jerry