How do you run jvisualvm.exe under the local system account under Windows Server 2008?

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I've been looking for a comparable approach as posted here for Windows Server 2003 for starting jvisualvm under system account. But I got the error:

...\jdk1.6.0_24\bin\jvisualvm.exe exited on ... with error code -1073741819.

I found that jvisualvm is using a configuration file:

...\jdk1.6.0_24\lib\visualvm\etc\visualvm.conf

This configuration file contains a default_userdir property that points to ${HOME}/.... The system account seems to have issues with ${HOME}. Changing this parameter and replace ${HOME} with C:/Temp makes the above mentioned solution available for Windows Server 2008 R2 as well.

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The question has the answer in it, but I wanted to summarize the steps.

Note that for me jvisualvm was not printing or logging anything when it failed to start up. I just had to make sure I updated that conf file correctly.

So just follow the steps from: How do you run jvisualvm.exe under the local system account under Windows Server 2003?

and then use this conf tip.
I was now able to see the processes, but I still cannot capture detailed JVM info like thread dumps.