Installing Intel Vtune

It's so easy to install VTune under Windows. Nothing much to discuss.

It took me 3 days to install VTune under Linux...finally I made it.

We are using Debian, but Vtune depends seriously on Red Hat or SUSE's RPM . so I turn to CentOS. but VTune need kernel source to compile sampling driver. I don't know how to use yum for getting proper source. And failed to use our own build kernel. Can't start the OS...faint.

And Vtune only tested on old Linux kernel/distribution. like Fedora Core 3, it can't recognize the newest Inter Server's hardware (Serials SCSI HD, etc). So I install FC 6. Yes, OS works, and I get source code installed as well. Mmm.. VTune is installing, compiling driver. Ops, but it can't mount the driver to kernel. VTune depends on kernel struct tasklist_lock, which is moved away from kernel 2.6.16...my FC 6 kernel is 2.6.18...Finally google saved my life. I found someone's solution, change several line of code in vtune, compile it , and it is ON!
although I still can't run collector on the machine, I can use a remote client while the server is running at server mode.

I can use VTune now.