Intel® VTune™ Profiler Installation Guide for macOS*

Install Guide

Contents

What features are available if I install
Intel® VTune™
Profiler
 as a non-root or non-administrator user?

Many
Intel VTune
Profiler
 features work when installed on a system as a user other than Root or Administrator. If
VTune
Profiler
 is installed by a user with permissions other than root/administrative, then
VTune
Profiler
 can collect some data. For example,
VTune
Profiler
 may try to use the Perf* utility and run a hardware event-based sampling analysis in the driverless mode.
The following features and actions require root/administrative access:

Product and Performance Information

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