VisualVM: CPU/Memory profiler stuck at “Connecting to the target JVM…”

See this bug report – VISUALVM-637

Solution: start JVisualVM using below command :

jvisualvm.exe -J-Dorg.netbeans.profiler.separateConsole=true

I’ve checked this (and it works !) at Windows 10 X64 with java version “1.8.0_102”