参考:
http://ptfrontline.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/loadrunner-v9-52-or-windows-7-x64-100-working/
http://bish.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=95%3Ainstalling-loadrunner-on-64-bit-windows&catid=34%3Arecent&Itemid=1
I recently got Windows 7 x64 installed on my laptop, and as per information from HP LoadRunner v9.52 does NOT work with Windows 7, let alone x64 – So I got myself a Virtual Machine installed, where I have Win XP x86 for LoadRunner work.
Beeing a person who believes software should work in diverse environments, I also tried installing LoadRunner on the Win 7 machine, specifically Analysis and VuGen as I do scripting with the laptop, no controller was needed. So I set out to install it and also did a few tricks on the way, things I knew would not work or had to be changed.
In short the following actions where taken during installation:
Installed into C:\USERS\[Username]\HP instead of standard Program Files directory – This because VuGen writes to INI files etc. all the time it needs write access to the install folder
After v9.50 installation, modified registry as per Richard Bishops blog entry Installing LoadRunner on 64 bit Windows
Installed all the Patches (IE8 patch too since I have IE8)
At this point to Analysis worked 100%, and VuGen worked all the way to the point where a web function was called. The call itself worked, and the result was retrieved but alas, the HTML parser failed with a critical exception error. So still I had not achieved 100% VuGen, but I was able to record, and replay non-html pages fine.
Now last Tuesday, Microsoft released a massive patch pack (some 29 fixes I think it was) and just by accident I was demonstrating Analysis and VuGen to a friend – and TO MY GREAT SURPRISE VuGen now replayed and parsed text/html content 100% !
So now I have myself a fully working LR v9.52 installation, and no longer see any immediate need to upgrade to the new ALM v11 just because people switch to Win 7.
Enjoy!