Transitioning an Oracle Solaris 10 Instance to an Oracle Solaris 11 System

You can transition your Oracle Solaris 10 environment to a non-global zone on an Oracle Solaris 11 system by creating a zone archive and migrating the zone archive to an Oracle Solaris 11 system. The following steps describe this process.

Install the Oracle Solaris 10 zone package on your Oracle Solaris 11 system. For example:
```
s11sysB# pkg install system/zones/brand/brand-solaris10
```

Copy the zonep2vchk script from your Oracle Solaris 11 system to the Oracle Solaris 10 instance or system to identify any issues that might prevent the instance from running as a solaris10 zone.

s10sys# ./zonep2vchk
--Executing Version: 1.0.5-11-15652

  - Source System: tardis
      Solaris Version: Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 s10s_u10wos_17b SPARC
      Solaris Kernel:  5.10 Generic_147440-01
      Platform:        sun4u SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440

  - Target System:
      Solaris_Version: Solaris 10
      Zone Brand:      native (default)
      IP type:         shared

--Executing basic checks
.
.

Create a ZFS file system that will contain the flash archive of the Oracle Solaris 10 system instance, if necessary.

Then, create a NFS share of the ZFS file system on your Oracle Solaris 11 system. For example:

s11sysB# zfs create pond/s10archive
s11sysB# zfs set share=name=s10share,path=/pond/s10archive,prot=nfs,root=s10sysA
pond/s10archive
name=s10share,path=/pond/s10archive,prot=nfs,sec=sys,root=s10sysA
s11sysB# zfs set sharenfs=on pond/s10archive

Select an Oracle Solaris 10 instance, which could be a virtual environment or a global zone on a Solaris 10 system. Note the Oracle Solaris 10 system's hostid.
```
s10sysA# hostid
8439b629
```
Create an archive of the Oracle Solaris 10 instance that you would like to migrate to a non-global zone on the Oracle Solaris 11 system.
```
s10sysA# flarcreate -S -n s10sysA -L cpio /net/s11sysB/pond/s10archive/s10.flar
```

Create a ZFS file system for the Oracle Solaris 10 zone.

s11sysB# zfs create -o mountpoint=/zones pond/zones
s11sysB# chmod 700 /zones

Create the non-global zone for the Oracle Solaris 10 instance.

s11sysB# zonecfg -z s10zone
s10zone: No such zone configured
Use 'create' to begin configuring a new zone.
zonecfg:s10zone> create -t SYSsolaris10
zonecfg:s10zone> set zonepath=/zones/s10zone
zonecfg:s10zone> set ip-type=exclusive
zonecfg:s10zone> add anet
zonecfg:s10zone:net> set lower-link=auto
zonecfg:s10zone:net> end
zonecfg:s10zone> set hostid=8439b629
zonecfg:s10zone> verify
zonecfg:s10zone> commit
zonecfg:s10zone> exit

Install the Oracle Solaris 10 non-global zone.

s11sysB# zoneadm -z s10zone install -u -a /pond/s10archive/s10.flar
A ZFS file system has been created for this zone.
Progress being logged to /var/log/zones/zoneadm.20110921T135935Z.s10zone.install
    Installing: This may take several minutes...
 Postprocess: Updating the image to run within a zone
   Postprocess: Migrating data
        from: pond/zones/s10zone/rpool/ROOT/zbe-0
          to: pond/zones/s10zone/rpool/export
.
.
.

Boot the Oracle Solaris 10 zone.
```
# zoneadm -z s10zone boot
```

Configure the Oracle Solaris 10 non-global zone.

s11sysB# zlogin -C s10zone
[Connected to zone 's10zone' console]
.
.
.
s10zone console login: root
Password: xxxxxxxx
# cat /etc/release
                   Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 s10s_u10wos_17b SPARC
  Copyright (c) 1983, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
                            Assembled 23 August 2011
# uname -a
SunOS supernova 5.10 Generic_Virtual sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T1000
# zfs list
NAME                USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
rpool              4.53G  52.2G   106K  /rpool
rpool/ROOT         4.53G  52.2G    31K  legacy
rpool/ROOT/zbe-0   4.53G  52.2G  4.53G  /
rpool/export         63K  52.2G    32K  /export
rpool/export/home    31K  52.2G    31K  /export/home

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