1. What's New in the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 Release
Oracle Solaris Auto Registration
SPARC: Support for ITU Construction Tools on SPARC Platforms
Oracle Solaris Upgrade Enhancement for Oracle Solaris Zone- Cluster Nodes
Virtualization Enhancements for Oracle Solaris Zones
Virtualization Enhancements for Oracle VM Server for SPARC
Memory Dynamic Reconfiguration Capability
Virtual Disk Multipathing Enhancements
Virtual Domain Information Command and API
System Administration Enhancements
Oracle Solaris ZFS Features and Enhancements
x86: Support for the IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS MSR
Support for Multiple Disk Sector Size
Sparse File Support in the cpio Command
x86: 64-Bit libc String Functions Improvements With SSE
Automated Rebuilding of sendmail Configuration Files
Automatic Boot Archive Recovery
x86: Intel AES-NI Optimization
New Oracle Solaris Unicode Locales
Device Management Enhancements
x86: HP Smart Array HBA Driver
x86: Support for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC Driver
x86: New SATA HBA Driver, bcm_sata, for Broadcom HT1000 SATA Controllers
Support for SATA/AHCI Port Multiplier
Support for Netlogic NLP2020 PHY in the nxge Driver
BIND 9.6.1 for the Oracle Solaris 10 OS
Open Fabrics User Verbs Primary Kernel Components
InfiniBand Infrastructure Enhancements
Support for the setxkbmap Command
ixgbe Driver to Integrate Intel Shared Code Version 3.1.9
Broadcom Support to bge Networking Driver
x86: Fully Buffered DIMM Idle Power Enhancement
Fault Management Architecture Enhancements
FMA Support for AMD's Istanbul Based Systems
Oracle Solaris FMA Enhancement
Sun Validation Test Suite 7.0ps9
Enhancements to the mdb Command to Improve the Debugging Capability of kmem and libumem
The following Oracle Solaris Zones features have been enhanced in the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 release.
A physical–to–virtual (P2V) capability can now be used to directly migrate an existing Oracle Solaris 10 system into a native non-global zone on a target system.
For more information about migrating a physical Oracle Solaris system into a zone, see System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones.
When a physical Oracle Solaris system is migrated into a non-global zone on a new system, the hostid changes to be the hostid of the new machine. If an application is licensed by the hostid on the original system and you cannot update the application configuration, you can set the hostid in the zone configuration to match the hostid of the original system.
For more information about hostid emulation and about how to configure a zone, see System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones.
For more information about the hostid command, see the hostid(1) man page.
The zoneadm attach subcommand has a new -U option. This option updates all of the packages for the zone so that these packages match what would be seen with a newly installed non-global zone on this host. To update patches on a system with zones, the zones can be detached while the global zone is patched, and then reattached with the -U option to match the level of the global zone.
For more information, see How to Migrate A Non-Global Zone in System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones. Also see, Using Update on Attach as a Patching Solution in System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones.