Solved! just want to share it think centos 9 was using ovirt appliance with el8. so downloaded the last version of appliance for el9 steps: dnf update -y curl -o ovirt-appliance.rpm https://resources.ovirt.org/repos/ovirt/github-ci/ovirt-appliance/el9/ovirt-... rpm -i ovirt-appliance.rpm (it will save to /usr/share/ovirt-engine-appliance/ovirt-engine-appliance-4.5-*.el9.ova) dnf install -y centos-release-ovirt45 dnf install ovirt-hosted-engine-setup hosted-engine --deploy ... after few steps it will ask for appliance If you want to deploy with a custom engine appliance image, please specify the path to the OVA archive you would like to use. Entering no value will use the image from the rhvm-appliance rpm, installing it if needed. Appliance image path []:/usr/share/ovirt-engine-appliance/ovirt-engine-appliance-4.5-*.el9.ova (HERE you set it ) you good to go !