Migrating Manjaro Linux VM to bare metal

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I have a VM which is running my daily driver Manjaro Linux which I would like to decouple from Proxmox and have it run on a smaller device. Doing this mainly for energy saving reasons as the origin machine is really hard on power and it doesn't have to run all the time otherwise. The smaller machine could run Proxmox, too, but I wouldn't be able to use the onboard GPU due to insufficient IOMMU groups. So I'm going for bare metal.

The question is, how can I transfer the contents to bare metal? I could imagine preinstalling Manjaro on the smaller machine, same version, and then only transferring all settings and what not. As I only have vague ideas about how to achieve that, I'd like to ask for help here first. Any other better way is more than welcome, of course.

Origin machine: AMD Threadripper 3970x, 32C/64T, (VM gets 16 cores, 16GB RAM, 256GB disk space (1 virtual disk))
Destination machine: HP Prodesk 405 G4, AMD Ryzen 5, 4C/8T, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD
 
Live booting on your VM. Use clonezila or DD (if your good with) and clone your partition. Then boot your new hardwazre on live clonezila or linux distro. Write your clone with. Then follow or search last steps if it doens't run from twice time. ( many cloned VM/hard machine bugs on first reboot after cloning. Reboot twice for know if your possibly problem is real.
 

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