Set Up Project

Intel® VTune™ Profiler

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Date 3/31/2025

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Set Up Project

Before you run an analysis with Intel® VTune™ Profiler, you create a project.

A project contains these details :

An analysis target
The configuration information for an analysis type
Data collection results

You use the VTune Profiler user interface to create a project. You cannot create one from the command line.

For Microsoft Visual Studio* IDE, VTune Profiler creates a project for an active startup project. After inheriting Visual Studio settings, VTune Profiler uses the application generated for the selected project as your analysis target. The default project directory is My VTune Results-[project name] in the solution directory.

For the standalone graphical interface, you create a project by specifying its name and the path to an analysis target. The default project directory is %USERPROFILE%\Documents\VTune\Projects on Windows* and $HOME/intel/vtune/projects on Linux*.

To create a VTune Profiler project for the standalone GUI:

Click New Project... in the Welcome screen.

In the Create a Project dialog box, configure these settings:

Use This	To Do This
Project Name field	Enter the name of a new project.
Location field and Browse button	Choose or create a directory to contain the project. TIP: Store all your project directories in the same location.
Create Project button	Create a folder with a `*.vtuneproj` file and open the Configure Analysis window.

Use This

To Do This

Project Name field

Enter the name of a new project.

Location field and Browse button

Choose or create a directory to contain the project.

TIP:

Store all your project directories in the same location.

Create Project button

Create a folder with a *.vtuneproj file and open the Configure Analysis window.

Click the Create Project button.

The Configure Analysis window opens.

Your default project is pre-configured for the Performance Snapshot analysis. This presents an overview of issues that affect the performance of your application. Click the Start button to proceed with the default setup.

To select a different analysis type, click on the name of the analysis in the analysis header section. This opens an Analysis Tree with all available analysis types.

NOTE:

You cannot run a performance analysis or import analysis data without creating a project.

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