Most VMware exits fail after cutover: the bootloader is wrong, or Windows still points at the old hypervisor. h2kvm repairs the guest offline first, then converts it.

Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI) has grown into a family of deployment models: hyperconverged, rack-aware, external SAN, disaggregated, multi-rack and disconnected operations. It is the right answer when Azure is your control plane. Machina is the right answer when you want open KVM, no cloud account and one install. This post lays out the difference.