The download is broken - make sure you've got the correct bits (archive managers typically notify you when the archive is broken).VisualVM doesn't start: there are several problems which could prevent VisualVM from starting without any obvious reason:.Check out the Getting Started document, it's designed to help you start using VisualVM.
You may provide additional options to define JDK and/or VisualVM user directory: Visualvm\bin\visualvm.exe or visualvm/bin/visualvm
The archive already contains the top-level visualvm directory.