Hello Matt,
                   probably the easiest setup to test/evaluate oVirt it to use ORB
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/ovirt-orb/
From version 4.2 you can setup a single node hyper-converged install but it requires more skills and resources.

https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/gluster-hyperconverged/chap-Introduction.html

You could also use nested virtualization on KVM and virt-manager, use your host to provide NFS, iscsi or gluster and then provide a nested VM for the engine and hosts. 

Regards,
                 Paul S.

From: Matt R <webmattr@hotmail.com>
Sent: 21 January 2020 08:05
To: Tony Brian Albers <tba@kb.dk>
Cc: users@ovirt.org <users@ovirt.org>
Subject: [ovirt-users] Re: oVirt on a Single Server
 
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That was my original configuration, but I found that it wouldn't let me add the local machine as a host, and so I thought perhaps I needed to use the self-hosted deployment methodology instead.

Would a regular engine be better for my deployment type? If so, I can investigate why that isn't working, and start over.

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> On Jan 20, 2020, at 11:46 PM, Tony Brian Albers <tba@kb.dk> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 07:35 +0000, webmattr@hotmail.com wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I can't seem to install the self-hosted engine onto local storage. It
>> gives me glustefs, iscsi, fc, and nfs as the available options. I'm
>> using this in a home-lab scenario, and don't have budget/etc. for
>> building out a dedicated NAS for it, or setting up multiple nodes. I
>> like the look of oVirt, and wanted to try it with a couple disposable
>> vm's (plex, and a docker instance I break often). My current best-
>> thought for how to make it work is to setup NFS on the server, and
>> then point the self-hosted engine at the (local) NFS share. Is there
>> a better way to do this that I might be overlooking?*
>>
>> *Factoring that I don't have the funds to build out a proper storage
>> environment, yet.
>>
>> (and if anyone asks, I did search for a solution to this, but didn't
>> find anything super helpful. Mostly I found 5+ year old articles on a
>> similar but different scenario).
>>
>
> Well, if you can live with a regular engine(not self-hosted), this
> works:
>
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> HTH
>
> /tony
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