Solaris releases supported?

I am working on an issue where we need to run old releases of Solaris 10 in order to test our application. We were led to believe that since the hypervisor abstracts that hardware from the OS that we could upgrade our hardware and still run an older OS. For example, we have a requirement to run Solaris 10 update 2. But the release notes for LDOMs 1.2 and 1.3 say that we have to run a minimum Solaris release and/or a minimum kernel patch level in order for our OS to be supported.
Can anyone clarify the rules for guest OSes? Does nayone successfully run unpatched old releases in LDOM guests?
Thanks!

The release notes recommend (as oppose to require) a specific version so that all the features are enabled.
Running older versions of Solaris in the guest domains is supported (you just won't have all the features
enabled that are listed in that LDoms release).
However I'm afraid you're out of luck with the S10U2 requirement as that is not technically possible.
LDoms support went into S10U3 and any older OS version won't have the LDoms drivers.
Personally, I wouldn't bother with anything less than S10U4 in a guest domain.
HTH

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