Installation Guide 2 Hardware and Software Requirements
Installation Guide  / 

1 Introduction

This document describes how to install and configure Simics. It identifies the hardware and software requirements for installing and running Simics and provides instructions for installation. This document should be read by users installing Simics themselves, and all administrators for Simics.

1.1 Conventions

Scripts, screen dumps and code fragments are presented in a monospace font. In screen dumps, user input is always presented in bold font, as in:

Welcome to the Simics prompt
simics> this is something that you should type

Artificial line breaks may be introduced to prevent the text from being too wide. A small arrow pointing down indicates that the interrupted text continues on the next line:

This is an artificial Line break
line break that should not be there.

The directory where the Simics Base package or any add-on package is installed is referred to as [simics], for example when mentioning the [simics]/RELEASENOTES.html file. In the same way, the shortcut [project] is used to point at the user's project directory.


The character "/" is used to separate directories and files, for Linux. If you are using Windows, you should read the character as "\" instead.

Installation Guide 2 Hardware and Software Requirements