The Enterprise in [simics]/targets/x86-440bx/ comes pre-configured with a simple MAI model: enterprise-ma-common.simics. You can start it as you would start any Simics script:
# ./simics -ma targets/x86-440bx/enterprise-ma-common.simics
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If the log level of the sample x86 model is set to 2, it will print out how many steps it has executed every 65536 cycles. Since the speed of the model depends a lot on the executed instructions, it is a useful indication of how far the simulation has run:
simics> ma_cpu0.log-level 2 [ma_cpu0] Changing log level: 1 -> 2 simics> c [ma_cpu0 info] cycle: 65535, steps: 128584 [ma_cpu0 info] cycle: 131071, steps: 325192 [ma_cpu0 info] cycle: 196607, steps: 521800