Windows PowerShell

In recent versions of Windows, there are two command line interfaces: the traditional “cmd” shell and the newer “PowerShell”.

If available, PowerShell is recommended. It can be started directly from the graphical interface or indirectly from the “cmd” shell by typing the command powershell.

For security reasons, PowerShell does not allow scripts to be executed by default. As the StratusLab command line interface consists of Python scripts, these cannot be executed without changing the default configuration.

To allow PowerShell to run scripts, execute the following within the PowerShell:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser

The shell does not need to be restarted. This configuration change only needs to be done once.