[coreos-status] Fedora CoreOS dropping support for VMware ESXi 6.5 and 6.7

[Benjamin Gilbert]

Hi all,

VMware ESXi 6.5 and 6.7 have now reached their end of life, so as
previously announced [1], Fedora CoreOS is dropping support for those
versions.

The next Fedora CoreOS releases on the `next` and `testing` streams
will update the VMware OVA image to hardware version 17 [2], and the
following `stable` release will do the same.  As a result, creating
virtual machines from an up-to-date OVA will not be possible on ESXi
6.5 and 6.7 without a workaround [3].  Existing virtual machines will
not be affected.

If you have any questions or concerns, contact us in #fedora-coreos on
Libera.Chat or open an issue in the Fedora CoreOS tracker [4].

--Benjamin Gilbert, for the CoreOS team

[1]:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]...
[2]: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1003746
[3]:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/provisioning-vmware/#_...
[4]: https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/new/choose