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 I'm experimenting with OpenSolaris in a virtual machine in order to get some more hands-on experience with Crossbow, Containers, ...

Just to make sure : this is not a guide / how-to.  These are notes to remind myself of what I did.  If you mess up your system by doing anything described here, that's your problem.  If I mess up my system ... well ... I have a backup ;-)

First of all : BFU (aka Blindingly Fast Upgrade)

1. I got BFU from here : dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/ (it's the SUNWonbld.i386.tar.bz2 file, for i386 in my case)
2. Then download the Crossbow bits from here : www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/snapshots/
3. Extract the BFU archive and install it (after removing any possible older version via pkgrm) : 
   pkgadd -d . SUNWonbld
4. Add BFU to the path via ~/.profile :
   export PATH=/opt/onbld/bin:/opt/onbld/bin/i386:$PATH
   export FASTFS=/opt/onbld/bin/i386/fastfs
   export BFULD=/opt/onbld/bin/i386/bfuld
   export GZIPBIN=/usr/bin/gzip
   
   
5. Source your .profile again or re-login, extract the crossbow bits and get bfu running:
   bfu /rpool/crossbow/nightly-nd
6. When all is done and you end up in ksh, don't forget to run the Automatic Conflict Resolution script :
   /opt/onbld/bin/acr
7. There you go ... reboot, admire your new GRUB entry and enjoy Crossbow!