Wind River VxWorks Reviews & Product Details

The lightweight Wind River VxWorks real-time operating system allows user to create industrial automation applications. It supports many devices and hence is deployed by many companies for their developments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Higher bug rate than can cause severe risk. Support requests made can take time as long as it can for the feedback. A cross development platform to be implemented in order to run the Wind River VxWorks, since it’s a self-hosting application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The overall IDE is perfect for application development, and it has multiple varieties of project development options which will help you to build projects as per your need.

The RTOS gives you a perfect hard real time embedded system which will support you to create industrial automation applications like motor control, process control etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing structure is a bit costly, and there are not many open-source materials available for learning. Also, the support team is not so helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it is available on many devices and many companies use this OS for their developments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Training services and support is not as good as I expected. We found many issues with the IDE (crashes and unknown errors) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some benefits i realized were:

Lightweight: The most reliable thing I found about this system is that it is lightweight RTOS suitable for applications for networking and network devices.

Memory allocation: VxWorks offers optimum system usage and gives us more efficiency when using the power of all running devices. Down time is little to none. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are several risks with VxWorks. There aren't enough debuggers which can erase or remove errors from this type of system. There is no time limit on how long the awaiting activities have to wait if they are placed on separate processors. VxWorks has under-privileged support for communication between processes. VxWorks is not self-hosting, which means that a cross-development system must be used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The IDE is very mature and the features in the code editor are very good. There are multiple options to build your project and the support pages are very supportive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product is costly and live debugging options for embedded targets are limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- The boot time is short. You don't have to wait for long.

- It is very light weight and manageable therefore best for communication and networking purposes.

- It is a very stable and reliable Real Time Operating System for industrial projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- There are few or no error erasers which could simply remove a bug that may occur.

- The price is very high.

- The support system is not very cooperative.

- It does not have commercial-friendly licensing terms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like this enables my IoT projects by giving me a powerful operating system to run my devices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be a steep learning curve as you get used to the program Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Performance and safety is a very good in this OS. Its light and has a very efficiently designed memory allocation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Quiet pricey for individual buyers. VxWorks is not self-hosting which forces you to use a cross-development system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Real time Operating system feature encourage more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Propritery software that gives limitation of commercial use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Light weight RTOS suitable for communication and network device platforms. Boot time is very less Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not enough debuggers/IDE are available. Majorly CLI interface is only available. More stability is required for parallel processing applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.