diff --git a/remotememory/remotememory.go b/remotememory/remotememory.go
index 00ca1ed71..ed371155f 100644
--- a/remotememory/remotememory.go
+++ b/remotememory/remotememory.go
@@ -9,11 +9,8 @@ package remotememory // import "go.opentelemetry.io/ebpf-profiler/remotememory"
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"encoding/binary"
-	"fmt"
 	"io"
 
-	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
-
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/ebpf-profiler/libpf"
 )
 
@@ -122,30 +119,13 @@ func (rm RemoteMemory) StringPtr(addr libpf.Address) string {
 	return rm.String(addr)
 }
 
-// ProcessVirtualMemory implements RemoteMemory by using process_vm_readv syscalls
+// ProcessVirtualMemory implements ReaderAt by using process_vm_readv syscalls
 // to read the remote memory.
 type ProcessVirtualMemory struct {
 	pid libpf.PID
 }
 
-func (vm ProcessVirtualMemory) ReadAt(p []byte, off int64) (int, error) {
-	numBytesWanted := len(p)
-	if numBytesWanted == 0 {
-		return 0, nil
-	}
-	localIov := []unix.Iovec{{Base: &p[0], Len: uint64(numBytesWanted)}}
-	remoteIov := []unix.RemoteIovec{{Base: uintptr(off), Len: numBytesWanted}}
-	numBytesRead, err := unix.ProcessVMReadv(int(vm.pid), localIov, remoteIov, 0)
-	if err != nil {
-		err = fmt.Errorf("failed to read PID %v at 0x%x: %w", vm.pid, off, err)
-	} else if numBytesRead != numBytesWanted {
-		err = fmt.Errorf("failed to read PID %v at 0x%x: got only %d of %d",
-			vm.pid, off, numBytesRead, numBytesWanted)
-	}
-	return numBytesRead, err
-}
-
-// NewRemoteMemory returns ProcessVirtualMemory implementation of RemoteMemory.
+// NewProcessVirtualMemory returns RemoteMemory with ProcessVirtualMemory as the underlying reader
 func NewProcessVirtualMemory(pid libpf.PID) RemoteMemory {
 	return RemoteMemory{ReaderAt: ProcessVirtualMemory{pid}}
 }
diff --git a/remotememory/remotememory_linux.go b/remotememory/remotememory_linux.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9fa21d425
--- /dev/null
+++ b/remotememory/remotememory_linux.go
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+//go:build linux
+
+// Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+package remotememory // import "go.opentelemetry.io/ebpf-profiler/remotememory"
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+)
+
+func (vm ProcessVirtualMemory) ReadAt(p []byte, off int64) (int, error) {
+	numBytesWanted := len(p)
+	if numBytesWanted == 0 {
+		return 0, nil
+	}
+	localIov := []unix.Iovec{{Base: &p[0], Len: uint64(numBytesWanted)}}
+	remoteIov := []unix.RemoteIovec{{Base: uintptr(off), Len: numBytesWanted}}
+	numBytesRead, err := unix.ProcessVMReadv(int(vm.pid), localIov, remoteIov, 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		err = fmt.Errorf("failed to read PID %v at 0x%x: %w", vm.pid, off, err)
+	} else if numBytesRead != numBytesWanted {
+		err = fmt.Errorf("failed to read PID %v at 0x%x: got only %d of %d",
+			vm.pid, off, numBytesRead, numBytesWanted)
+	}
+	return numBytesRead, err
+}
diff --git a/remotememory/remotememory_other.go b/remotememory/remotememory_other.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5107a86b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/remotememory/remotememory_other.go
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+//go:build !linux
+
+// Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+package remotememory // import "go.opentelemetry.io/ebpf-profiler/remotememory"
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"runtime"
+)
+
+// ReadAt is the stub implementation, allowing to compile the remotememory
+// package on non linux systems, always failing at runtime with an error if used.
+func (vm ProcessVirtualMemory) ReadAt(_ []byte, _ int64) (int, error) {
+	return 0, fmt.Errorf("unsupported os %s", runtime.GOOS)
+}
diff --git a/remotememory/remotememory_test.go b/remotememory/remotememory_test.go
index fcbfa0ab6..f3e5d5403 100644
--- a/remotememory/remotememory_test.go
+++ b/remotememory/remotememory_test.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"errors"
 	"os"
+	"runtime"
 	"syscall"
 	"testing"
 	"unsafe"
@@ -19,14 +20,14 @@ import (
 
 func RemoteMemTests(t *testing.T, rm RemoteMemory) {
 	data := []byte{0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06, 0x07, 0x08}
-	dataPtr := libpf.Address(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&data[0])))
+	dataPtr := libpf.Address(unsafe.Pointer(&data[0]))
 	str := []byte("this is a string\x00")
-	strPtr := libpf.Address(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&str[0])))
+	strPtr := libpf.Address(unsafe.Pointer(&str[0]))
 	longStr := append(bytes.Repeat([]byte("long test string"), 4095/16), 0x00)
-	longStrPtr := libpf.Address(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&longStr[0])))
+	longStrPtr := libpf.Address(unsafe.Pointer(&longStr[0]))
 
 	foo := make([]byte, len(data))
-	err := rm.Read(libpf.Address(uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(&data))), foo)
+	err := rm.Read(libpf.Address(unsafe.Pointer(&data)), foo)
 	if errors.Is(err, syscall.ENOSYS) {
 		t.Skipf("skipping due to error: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -38,5 +39,8 @@ func RemoteMemTests(t *testing.T, rm RemoteMemory) {
 }
 
 func TestProcessVirtualMemory(t *testing.T) {
+	if runtime.GOOS != "linux" {
+		t.Skipf("unsupported os %s", runtime.GOOS)
+	}
 	RemoteMemTests(t, NewProcessVirtualMemory(libpf.PID(os.Getpid())))
 }