Is it possible to use dotTrace within a virtual machine?

Question

I've been trying to run dotTrace 3.1 on my Windows 7 development machine. However, it turns out that dotTrace 3.1 doesn't work on Windows 7 properly. I've been in a discussion with JetBrains regarding this who confirms that it is a known issue that won't be addressed until the next release.

I'm considering setting up a virtual machine with either VMWare or Virtual PC and installing dotTrace in the VM.

My question is fairly straight forward: Will dotTrace work within a virtual machine?

I'm going to do some memory profiling, and I think that this might imply some problems when using a virtual machine, since I reckon the virtual machine will use some kind of virtual address space instead of the physical RAM.

Answer 1

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