Long story short, I've been spending weeks on this project for my home lab with no success.

I would like to successfully install two nodes that host a highly available engine with an iSCSI storage back-end.

I have read through most, if not all, of the guides on ovirt.org with no substantial help.

Successfully, I have done the following:

Install oVirt Engine on a bare metal system, added a node, and started exploring - not desired.

Install oVirt Node 4.0.6 on a bare metal system - fails if partitions are not done automatically.

Install oVirt Node 4.1.2 on a bare metal system - fails if partitions are not done automatically.

My process after installing a Node:

Run a yum update - just to be sure, but I am using latest iso images from downloads section.

Edit /etc/hosts for local name resolution - the goal is to host DNS as a virtual machine, eventually.

On 4.1 if I install ovirt-engine-appliance from yum, it does simplify one step in the hosted engine setup.  If I do this on 4.0 it discards the image and uses the default.

On 4.1 the hosted engine setup fails immediately unless I run the hosted engine cleanup from the shell.  If I do this, I can typically get to the point of installing.

When I do get to the installation phase, I get to a point just after extracting the OVA that I get a message on the shell saying something about the watchdog running the whole time and then the node reboots.

I found one email thread that sounded like my issue and suggested the following commands:

Unfortunately, these commands did not help my situation like the other individual.

What log file would everyone like to see first?  Given that I still consider myself relatively new to Linux, please identify the path for the log file requested.

Also, because I plan on performing a clean install for this thread using my process from above (I'm not expecting my outcome to be any different), are there any tips and tricks that might result in a success?

Thank you for any and all help,

Brendan