diff -r 7a2a740815b7 -r caf115bb98ad test/jdk/jdk/jfr/jvm/TestJfrJavaBase.java
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+++ b/test/jdk/jdk/jfr/jvm/TestJfrJavaBase.java	Tue May 15 20:24:34 2018 +0200
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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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+ */
+
+/*
+ * @test
+ * @bug 8157032
+ * @key jfr
+ * @summary verify that jfr can not be used when JVM is executed only with java.base
+ * @library /test/lib
+ * @modules java.base/jdk.internal.misc
+ * @run driver jdk.jfr.jvm.TestJfrJavaBase
+ */
+
+package jdk.jfr.jvm;
+
+
+import jdk.test.lib.dcmd.PidJcmdExecutor;
+import jdk.test.lib.process.OutputAnalyzer;
+import jdk.test.lib.process.ProcessTools;
+
+public class TestJfrJavaBase {
+
+    private static void checkOutput(OutputAnalyzer output) {
+        output.shouldContain("jdk.jfr not found.");
+        output.shouldContain("Flight Recorder can not be enabled.");
+        output.shouldContain("To use Flight Recorder, you might need to add \"--add-modules jdk.jfr\" to the VM command-line options.");
+    }
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+        OutputAnalyzer output;
+        if (args.length == 0) {
+            output = ProcessTools.executeProcess(ProcessTools.createJavaProcessBuilder(false,
+                "-Dtest.jdk=" + System.getProperty("test.jdk"),
+                "--limit-modules", "java.base", "-cp", System.getProperty("java.class.path"),
+                TestJfrJavaBase.class.getName(), "runtest"));
+            output.shouldHaveExitValue(0);
+        } else {
+            output = ProcessTools.executeTestJava("-XX:StartFlightRecording=dumponexit=true",
+                "--limit-modules", "java.base", "-version");
+            checkOutput(output);
+            output.shouldHaveExitValue(1);
+
+            // Verify that JFR.start jcmd command reports an error when jdk.jfr module is not available
+            output = new PidJcmdExecutor().execute("JFR.start");
+            checkOutput(output);
+            output.shouldHaveExitValue(0);
+        }
+    }
+}