DSim Cloud Supported Operating Systems, Browsers, and Shells

DSim Cloud allows users to execute commands on their local compute (running an OS) within a terminal window (also known as a shell). Some commands, such as the mdc auth command will launch a browser for the user to enter their authentication credentials.

Below is a list of supported operating systems and browsers for DSim Cloud. The items in the tables below are those Metrics is testing with on a regular basis.

If you are using an unsupported OS or browser, DSim Cloud may likely work however, we are not testing internally for it.

Supported Operating Systems

DSim Cloud provides official support for the following operating system versions:

* An issue has been found with Ubuntu 22.04 whereby the DSim Cloud CLI will not operate after installation. Running the mdc --version command will return the following error:

%> mdc --version  
No usable version of libssl was found  
Aborted (core dumped)

To install libssl onto Ubuntu, please perform the following steps, which should clear the issue.

%> echo"deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-security main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/impish-security.list  
%> sudo apt-get update
%> sudo apt-get install libssl1.1

Supported Browsers

DSim Cloud provides official support for the following browsers

Supported Shells

DSim Cloud provides official support for the following shells:

Note on WSL:

WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) provides a Linux environment on Windows. Using DSim Cloud on WSL is untested and not recommended.