Re: Recover a Guest win7 on Fedora KVM.

[Ed Greshko]

On 12/02/17 01:03, Rick Stevens wrote:
>  On 12/01/2017 04:05 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 12/01/17 18:32, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 15:46 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >>> I should have also asked...why are you sticking to F25? It goes end-of-
> >>> life in about 6 months. You should have upgraded to at least F26.
> >> It will be a lot less than 6 months if history is any guide. N-2
> >> usually goes EOL about a month after N is released.
> > From https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-25-end-life/
> >
> > With the recent release of Fedora 27, Fedora 25 officially enters End Of Life (EOL)
> > status on December 12th, 2017. After December 12th, all packages in the Fedora 25
> > repositories no longer receive security, bugfix, or enhancement updates.
> Furthermore,
> > no new packages will be added to the Fedora 25 collection.
>  Yes, I know N - 2 goes EOL a month after the release of the new version.
>  I was just suggesting gently that the OP, since he was building a new
>  system, should have gone with at least F26. But there are things that
>  people run that are dependent on older libraries and such and I get
>  that, but they probably should run a longer-lived distro such as CentOS
>  instead of our favorite, bleeding-edge and (at times) frustrating
>  Fedora. 
OK.  But you did write "It goes end-of-life in about 6 months", which is
factually
incorrect and that is all POC and I were addressing.

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