Building a VM Instruction Set in Rust

Luis Soares
Dev Genius
8 min readJan 17, 2024

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In this comprehensive tutorial, we’ll build a basic Virtual Machine (VM) in Rust. It isn’t just about coding; it’s about understanding the core concepts of virtualization, instruction sets, and how to implement these ideas in a practical, hands-on manner.

By the end of this tutorial, you will have a deeper understanding of VMs and a working Rust application that simulates a simple VM.

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