Hi All, Up to OpenSolaris 200906 PKG uses a Python networking interface for downloads, there was many issues reported on systems with not fast or not stable network connections.
Now PKG was upgraded top to use CURL library situation is much improved, but on some combinations like" Overloaded WiFI connection in virtualization guest" or "heavily shared Internet connection with firewall" like we see sometimes on Amazon EC2 environment. 6561 ability to tune number of retries for pkg during net install http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6561 Nice day Rudolf
