Recently, an incompatibility between the Solaris 8 Migration Assistant ("Project Etude", or S8MA) and recent versions of the Solaris 10 8/07 kernel patch was discovered. Currently, S8MA is only supported on a limited set of Solaris 10 kernel patches.

To use the Solaris 8 Migration Assistant, you must be running the Solaris 10 8/07 release with one of the following versions of the 127111 patch installed:

       127111-01 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
       127111-02 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
       127111-03 SunOS 5.10: kernel patch

There are later revisions of the 127111 KU patch available, but these versions are not supported with S8MA at this time. If you attempt to use KU patches newer than 127111-03 with S8MA, your system will not function reliably. This could result in a system panic when starting a solaris8 branded zone.

Please note that this problem does not pose any risk to non-S8MA systems. It did not arise from a defect in the 127111-* patch series. 127111-* patches should be applied to non-S8MA systems as usual.

A new Solaris 8 Migration Assistant patch, 128548-02, will be released soon. This will be available from SunSolve. This patch will allow S8MA to be run on Solaris 10 8/07 with 127111-01 and all subsequent KU patches. When this new patch is released, all S8MA users will be required to install it to have a supportable configuration.

Please be prepared to install this new Solaris 8 Migration Assistant patch when it is available.