VTune creates projects in the wrong directory

[Beleg]

I've installed VTune 2025.4.0 via oneApi toolkit in a custom location (`~/.intel/oneapi/vtune/2025.4/`) on my Debian 13 machine. I noticed that running vtune-server makes a new `~/intel/vtune` directory in my home directory, in which it stores project files and their respective collected data. While

I want to know if this is the expected behavior, and if there's a way I can prevent it from littering my home dir.

[Alessio436]

Hey Beleg! Yeah, that’s actually the expected behavior — VTune always creates a default workspace in ~/intel/vtune for project data, even if you’ve installed it somewhere else. It uses that directory to store collected results and configs tied to your user profile.

If you want to change that location, you can override it by setting the VTUNE_PROJECTS_DIR environment variable before running VTune or vtune-server, like this:

export VTUNE_PROJECTS_DIR=/your/preferred/path vtune-server

That’ll make VTune use your custom directory instead of littering your home folder.

[Beleg]

Thank you very much! VTUNE_PROJECTS_DIR is what I was looking for.

[Ruslan_M_Intel]

Here is also '--data-directory' option available in VTune Server:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/vtune-profiler/user-guide/2025-4/run-vtune-profiler-server.html

[Beleg]

In fact the env var VTUNE_PROJECTS_DIR did not solve my problem. Even with `export`, the project dir is still created at `~/intel/vtune/project.`

The `--data-directory` option sets the path only for the project files. `~/intel/vtune` is still created, containing `settings/`.