VSD System Requirements

VSD works on Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.

64-Bit Platform Support

VSD is a 32-bit application. If you are running VSD on a 64-bit operating system, you may need to install 32-bit OS libraries to run the application if they are not already installed. On Linux, to find out which libraries are missing you can try running the following:

ldd <product_dir>/tools/vsd/bin/vsdwishLinux

For 64-bit Windows, you can modify the scripts and executables as described in the note below.

Windows 7 and Later Support

To use VSD on Windows 7, perform the following steps:

  1. Start Windows Explorer and navigate to the GEMFIREPRODUCTDIR\tools\vsd\bin\ directory, where GEMFIREPRODUCTDIR corresponds to the location where you installed GemFire.
  2. Right click and select properties for vsd.bat.
  3. Select the Compatibility tab.
  4. Click “Run this program in compatibility mode for” and then select Windows XP SP3.
  5. Repeat steps for all the other executables in the bin directory.