Thanks for the suggestions. I was actually a little unhappy to find out the SXCE line was being disabled. I liked SXCE because it gave me the full set of software on the DVD, and it your internet connection isn't that fast and you are trying to get a reinstall done quickly that is a plus.
Also finding out that both SXCE nor OpenSolaris are perfect matches for a production environment- although can't really complain since they never were advertised as such. Also disappointed that OpenSolaris doesn't (or at least didn't) install XVM kernel and update the boot menu settings by default. My short term goals were hopefully to fix an XWindows related issue (specifically between Solaris and Fedora Core 11) and also to get XVM working (I do have it working on a separate opensolaris machine but had to google for a working config.) Longer term I will of course have to back up, reinstall and restore data (plus all the configurations, accounts, apps etc.) I am hoping that when Solaris 11 comes out, XVM support is included. The machine in question does support hardware virtualization so I may just use VMWare. I am a little suprised that Sun seems kind of slow in getting virtualization into a supported release- though to be far Sun's approach seems to be stability vs bleeding edge. I will also try to scrounge up some intermediate SXCE releases. And I will let the lupgrade process continue some time longer just in case it really didn't hang. I don't have zones running. Thanks -- This message posted from opensolaris.org