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Good luck with your hardware.
You need tools like Acronis already
2nd for this. Macrium refrect is another alternative
or you can try Veeam. They have a free version. Install Veeam client in your VM, create a backup and a boot disk, boot the physical machine with that disk and then restore from backup.
I would just write the KVM image to the disk (dd if=... of=...).
yeah just dd the disk, reinstall the mbr, have drivers on usb, done, or convert/import to esx and use their v2p convertor.
Sysprep (OOBE + Generalize) the machine and then backup the OS from a rescue system. That would be the best practice way of doing something like this too. You will also circumvent any driver related issues using this method.
if your host was half-decent it all you'd be using VirtIO for both Network and disk, so you're going to need to probably reactivate windows at the slightest.
The fact the hardware is going to dramatically change means you're going to have to probably reinstall it anyhow- you can't really run DC on new hardware unless you have a license and it stays in the DC.
That said it's trivial to migrate to another virtualization layer so I would suggest doing that if downtime is going to be an issue and then migrate to physical hardware afterwards.
Which Windows? Windows 7 and 8 usually need bare metal restore to dissimilar hardware technology, but I've had a number of win 10 installs moved across different motherboards and virtualization that didn't require Acronis.
Nope, this is not third party host. Just local server with Windows Server 2016. Thank you all for ideas.
Windows 10 / 2016 should be happy after a dd to the new hard drive. Some drivers need to be installed afterwards, but it should be just about that.