vm-check

Changelog

Generated from CHANGELOG.md on every deploy, so it never drifts from the source of truth.

Changelog

All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

[1.0.0] - 2026-08-02

Added

  • Rewrite of the original vm-check.sh script into a Rust workspace: vm-check-core (the detection engine), vm-check-cli (command-line interface), and vm-check-gui (cross-platform desktop GUI).
  • Weighted confidence scoring: each heuristic contributes a weighted signal instead of a single pass/fail check, with a LikelyVirtualMachine / Uncertain / LikelyPhysicalMachine verdict derived from the total.
  • Windows support: WMI (Win32_ComputerSystem, BIOS) and registry-based checks, alongside the existing Linux heuristics.
  • vm-check-gui, a native desktop GUI built with egui, with light/dark/system theme and English/German language support, both persisted across runs.
  • --json output mode for scripting/CI, and -v/--verbose for matched-evidence detail per check.
  • -y/--yes and --no-elevate flags to control the elevated-checks (dmesg, dmidecode) prompt non-interactively.
  • CI (cargo fmt, clippy -D warnings, cargo test, a real-VM smoke test) and a release workflow producing Linux/Windows binary archives.
  • The project page published via GitHub Pages, including this changelog.

Changed

  • Exit codes now distinguish 0 (likely physical), 1 (likely a VM), 2 (uncertain), and 3 (internal error), instead of a single pass/fail.