Open Intel® VTune™ Profiler

Open Intel® VTune™ Profiler with the graphical user interface (vtune-gui) or command-line interface (vtune).

Once you have downloaded Intel® VTune™ Profiler, follow these steps to run the application:

  1. Locate the installation directory.
  2. Set environment variables.
  3. Open Intel® VTune™ Profiler

Default Installation Paths

Whether you downloaded Intel® VTune™ Profiler as a standalone component or with the Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit, the default path for your <install-dir> is:

Operating System Path to <install-dir>

Windows* OS

  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\
  • C:\Program Files\Intel\oneAPI\

    (in certain systems)

Linux* OS

  • /opt/intel/oneapi/ for root users
  • $HOME/intel/oneapi/ for non-root users

Set Environment Variables

To set up environment variables for VTune ProfilerVTune Profiler, run the setvars script:

Linux* OS:source <install-dir>/setvars.sh

Windows* OS:<install-dir>\setvars.bat

When you run this script, it displays the product name and the build number. You can now use the vtune and vtune-gui commands.

Open VTune Profiler from the GUI

On Windows* OS, use the Search menu or locate VTune Profiler from the Start menu to run the standalone GUI client.

For the version of VTune Profiler that is integrated into Microsoft* Visual Studio* IDE on Windows OS, do one of the following:

On a macOS* system, start Intel VTune Profiler version from the Launchpad.

Open VTune Profiler from the Command Line

To launch the VTune Profiler from the command line, run the following scripts from the <install-dir>/bin64 directory:

To open a specific VTune Profiler project or a result file, enter:

> vtune-gui <path>

where <path> is one of the following:

For example, to open the matrix project in the VTune Profiler GUI on Linux, run:

vtune-gui /root/intel/vtune/projects/matrix/matrix.vtuneproj

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