Create Local IPS Repository on Solaris 11.3 on virtual box

This document describe the procedure to create the local IPS repo on Oracle Solaris 11.3 on virtual box.
By default Solaris have configure with default repo. if we do not have access to the internet to update the required packages we need to create local repo at server level.
To setup  the local repo, we need to download the Oracle's hosted repositories from the Oracle Technology Network.

Accept the OTN agreement license and download the available repositories.

I have already downloaded the repo's and i already created the ISO file to merge them. so i will skip that steps.

Select the machine and goto the storage tab and select he ISO file.

Check the ISO under /media dir.

 root@oracle123:~# ls -l  /media/
total 4
dr-xr-xr-x   3 root     root        2048 Mar  3 00:19 SOL-11_3_REPO

Check the current publisher.

root@oracle123:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION
solaris                     origin   online F http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/

Set new publisher. path will be same under /media directory.

root@oracle123:~# pkg set-publisher  -G '*' -g file:///media/SOL-11_3_REPO/repo/ solaris

Make sure system repository service pointing to the local repo.

root@oracle123:~# svccfg -s application/pkg/server setprop pkg/inst_root=/media/SOL-11_3_REPO/repo

Verify local pointing repo.

root@oracle123:~# svcprop -p pkg/inst_root application/pkg/server

/media/SOL-11_3_REPO/repo

Reload the repo service.

root@oracle123:~# svcadm refresh application/pkg/server

Check again if its new publisher.

root@oracle123:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION
solaris                     origin   online F file:///media/SOL-11_3_REPO/repo/

Try to install the packages.

root@oracle123:~# pkg install SUNWhea
           Packages to install:  1
       Create boot environment: No
Create backup boot environment: No

DOWNLOAD                                PKGS         FILES    XFER (MB)   SPEED
Completed                                1/1     1640/1640      3.3/3.3    0B/s

PHASE                                          ITEMS
Installing new actions                     1757/1757
Updating package state database                 Done
Updating package cache                           0/0
Updating image state                            Done
Creating fast lookup database                   Done
Updating package cache                           1/1


Check all available updates.

root@oracle123:~# pkg update
No updates available for this image.

We have successfully created the local IPS repository on virtual box and updated packages.

Thanks.