Hi Harry,
In case you're in a similar position to me, and simply looking to stand up your
hosted-engine just to migrate to a different hypervisor, I'm going through a similar
situation where I wasn't able to get my hosted-engine to boot. Below is my thread:
https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/thread/GUFN2F6WRLH7...
I've made some progress with exporting the VMs using the method I've linked in my
responses, albeit the process has been slow and painful.