Is it possible to use dotTrace within a virual machine?

Question

Hi,

I've been trying to run dotTrace 3.1 on my Windows 7 development machine. However, it turns out that dotTrace 3.1 dont work on Windows 7 properly. I've been in a discussion with JetBrains regarding this who confirms that it is a know issue that won't be addressed until the next release. So now I'm thinking about setting up a virtual machine with either VMWare och Virtual PC and install dotTrace in the virtual machine. My question is fairly straight forward: Will dotTrace work within a virtual machine? I'm about to do some memory profiling and I guess that this might imply some problems when using a virtual machine since I recon the virtual machine will use some kind of virtual address space instead of the actual physicall RAM.

Thanx in advance!

Answer 1

Windows uses virtual memory whether it runs in a VM or not. doTrace should work fine running in vmware or similar.