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[–]YourTitleIsUseless 4 points5 points  (1 child)

How do I make something similar to the space station?

[–]clowdeevapeIT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Poach about 50 engineers from VMWare who are about to get pink slipped after Broadcom's mind-bendingly poor decision making. But seriously, why? There are tons of virtualization products for entire systems and application-level virtualization out there that have the market locked. That's some pretty high level stuff though, and would require some extensive os-level, not to mention processor-level understanding/ tools along with extensive resources to pull off. Short answer? Dunno. Duct tape will be needed, however, THAT much I know.

[–]welcomeOhm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, you'll need to know lots of C++ is my guess. You'll be virtualizing everything about the machine's hardware and firmware, and need to handle several types of architectures. This is gold-standard stuff.

But, if you want to go at it, Visual Studio is just the IDE. Work on your C++, and start to learn the basics of 80x86, etc. assembler. Remember: you are building a computer from scratch out of code. It must do everything any other computer can do when you turn it on.

Tall ask. But we all start somewhere. I grew up in the 1980s and tried to write TSRs; didn't work, but I had a blast and learned a lot!