Java VisualVM hangs connecting to locally process launched from eclipse

Question

I\'m trying to connect jvisualvm installed with jdk1.7.0_04 to a locally running java process. When I do this, jvisualvm shows a progress bar in the bottom left saying its

Answer 1

In my case the solution was to use 32bit jsdk.
To diagnose start jvisualvm with param --trace ..

my log contained:
Cannot load C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_45\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll. %1 is not a valid Win32 application. (193) Falling back to running Java in a separate process; DLL cannot be loaded (64-bit DLL?).