Is there a way to start the simulator with user authentication already disabled?

PLCnext Engineer
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Is there a way to start the simulator with user authentication already disabled?
That’s it. Would shave minutes off every day for me. Happy holidays.
TIA

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Two minutes and thirty seconds. I timed it. Every time I switch branches or restart my dev machine.

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Unfortunately not.
The next version of the Simulations will have retention capability, so the state of the emulation can be saved and restored. I think that will help with this issue.

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The simulator backend is QEMU, its already possible to add a writable overlay to the existing simulator by editing the .conf

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The simulator backend is QEMU, its already possible to add a writable overlay to the existing simulator by editing the .conf</p>

Any tips/links on how to go about doing that?

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The simulator backend is QEMU, its already possible to add a writable overlay to the existing simulator by editing the .conf</p>

This kind of a thing? https://www.iduoad.com/til/qemu-overlay-images/

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Apologies for the late reply, I was under the impression I had posted already.
I installed the qemu-packge on my system, with qemu-img, with that I was able to create a writable overlay for the existing filesystem.

C:\Program Files\PHOENIX CONTACT\PLCnext Engineer Simulation\images\AXCF1152\2023.0.0>"C:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-img.exe" create -f qcow2 writable_overlay.ext4.qcow2 -b sim-axcf1152-image-base-sim-axcf2152.ext4.qcow2 -F qcow2
Formatting 'my.ext4.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 cluster_size=65536 extended_l2=off compression_type=zlib size=530640896 backing_file=sim-axcf1152-image-base-sim-axcf2152.ext4.qcow2 backing_fmt=qcow2 lazy_refcounts=off refcount_bits=16
And mounting that instead of the original 'disk'
        "-drive file=writable_overlay.ext4.qcow2,if=virtio,format=qcow2",
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Apologies for the late reply, I was under the impression I had posted already.</p>I installed the qemu-packge on my system, with qemu-img, with that I was able to create a writable overlay for the existing filesystem.</p>

C:\Program Files\PHOENIX CONTACT\PLCnext Engineer Simulation\images\AXCF1152\2023.0.0>"C:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-img.exe" create -f qcow2 writable_overlay.ext4.qcow2 -b sim-axcf1152-image-base-sim-axcf2152.ext4.qcow2 -F qcow2\nFormatting 'my.ext4.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 cluster_size=65536 extended_l2=off compression_type=zlib size=530640896 backing_file=sim-axcf1152-image-base-sim-axcf2152.ext4.qcow2 backing_fmt=qcow2 lazy_refcounts=off refcount_bits=16\n<\/pre>And mounting that instead of the original 'disk'<\/p>

"-drive file=writable_overlay.ext4.qcow2,if=virtio,format=qcow2",\n<\/pre>

And don't forget to remove "-snapshot" option in .../sim-axcf1152-image-base-sim-axcf2152.simboot.conf