Trying to run oprofile on ubuntu kernel but cannot find vmlinux file

Question

I am trying to run oprofile on my ubuntu host but cannot find the vmlinux file. The set up sfor oprofile needs this file:

As given here : http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/doc/overview.html#getting-started

opcontrol --vmlinux=/boot/vmlinux-`uname -r`

What should I do so that I can profile the ubuntu kernel.

I am using 2.6.32-34-generic-pae (uname -r)

Answer 1

Under Ubuntu & variants, it's named vmlinuz. So your command line for oprofile becomes :

opcontrol --vmlinux=/boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r