[Users] Problems with first time oVirt installation

Hi all - trying to evaluate ovirt and having real problems with getting a self contained install running. I've followed the Quickstart guide at: http://www.ovirt.org/Download word for word using a fresh CentOS 6.4 install with all updates applied on a Intel based PC with 8GB Ram and two nics. It seems to all go well but when I get into the web interface, none of the storage is initially visible, neither the ISO_DOMAIN nor the local storage. Oddly if I refresh the browser (firefox & chrome) while on the storage page the ISO_DOMAIN appears but can't be attached to a datacenter - "None Available" If I go into the host page the host is there but not finished configuring. The network setup is unfinished, the management interface is not attached to a NIC. If I attach it to the active nic (NIC 0) it throws an exception on Save. I can attach it to nic 1 but its not actually hooked up to anything. I have successfully installed and run proxmox on this pc, so don;t think there are hardware problems. On a related note - I've also been trying to test ovirt at home, which means running it on KVM (setup with virt-manager). CentOS installs fine but on reboot just goes to a black screen with the hour glass. If anyone has suggestions on how to get past that it would help my test config a lot :) Host machine is Kubuntu 13.10. Thanks, -- Lindsay