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When drilling down to hotspot on a Linux binary, the VTune analyzer prompts for the binary files location. Why is that?

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When drilling down to hotspot on a Linux binary, the VTune analyzer prompts for the binary files location. Why is that?

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Currently, symbol processing and analysis of Linux binaries is done in the VTune analyzer on the Windows side. When the VTune analyzer encounters a reference to a Linux binary for the first time, it will prompt for the location of where to retrieve the file.