Hi, I found the messages at http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2018-January/086631.html in your archive and am running into a similar/identical issue when trying to install a hosted engine: After providing all of the information, the installer does create some files on the nfs share (plantfiler02:/storage/vmx/ovirt) but eventually dies with: [ INFO ] TASK [Copy configuration files to the right location on host] [ INFO ] TASK [Copy configuration archive to storage] [ ERROR ] [WARNING]: Failure using method (v2_runner_on_failed) in callback plugin [ ERROR ] (<ansible.plugins.callback.1_otopi_json.CallbackModule object at 0x25c86d0>): [ ERROR ] 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2018' in position 489: ordinal not in [ ERROR ] range(128) [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Closing up': Failed executing ansible-playbook [ INFO ] Stage: Clean up The relevant part in the logfile I believe is the following: 2018-03-09 09:05:05,762+0100 DEBUG otopi.ovirt_hosted_engine_setup.ansible_utils ansible_utils._process_output:94 {u'_ansible_parsed': True, u'stderr_lines': [u'dd: failed to open \u2018/rhev/data-center/mnt/plantfiler02:_storage_vmx_ovirt/017fcf64-45c8-4289-87f7-c1195f7ec584/images/f36c079b-ba17-4c14-96a2-2b2beea7d989/56cd3448-4ecf-490e-99cc-ace36b977a9a\u2019: Permission denied'], u'cmd': [u'dd', u'bs=20480', u'count=1', u'oflag=direct', u'if=/var/tmp/localvmf0uaFh/56cd3448-4ecf-490e-99cc-ace36b977a9a', u'of=/rhev/data-center/mnt/plantfiler02:_storage_vmx_ovirt/017fcf64-45c8-4289-87f7-c1195f7ec584/images/f36c079b-ba17-4c14-96a2-2b2beea7d989/56cd3448-4ecf-490e-99cc-ace36b977a9a'], u'end': u'2018-03-09 09:05:05.565013', u'_ansible_no_log': False, u'stdout': u'', u'changed': True, u'start': u'2018-03-09 09:05:05.557703', u'delta': u'0:00:00.007310', u'stderr': u'dd: failed to open \u2018/rhev/data-center/mnt/plantfiler02:_storage_vmx_ovirt/017fcf64-45c8-4289-87f7-c1195f7ec584/images/f36c079b-ba17-4c14-96a2-2b2beea7d989/56cd3448-4ecf-490e-99cc-ace36b977a9a\u2019: Permission denied', u'rc': 1, u'invocation': {u'module_args': {u'warn': True, u'executable': None, u'_uses_shell': False, u'_raw_params': u'dd bs=20480 count=1 oflag=direct if="/var/tmp/localvmf0uaFh/56cd3448-4ecf-490e-99cc-ace36b977a9a" of="/rhev/data-center/mnt/plantfiler02:_storage_vmx_ovirt/017fcf64-45c8-4289-87f7-c1195f7ec584/images/f36c079b-ba17-4c14-96a2-2b2beea7d989/56cd3448-4ecf-490e-99cc-ace36b977a9a"', u'removes': None, u'creates': None, u'chdir': None, u'stdin': None}}, u'stdout_lines': [], u'ms I did create vdsm user and kvm user and group on the NFS server and I succesfully ran the nfs-check.py script from the host where ovirt should be installed: # python nfs-check.py plantfiler02:/storage/vmx/ovirt/ Current hostname: hyena.******.de - IP addr 10.216.60.21 Trying to /bin/mount -t nfs plantfiler02:/storage/vmx/ovirt/... Executing NFS tests.. Removing vdsmTest file.. Status of tests [OK] Disconnecting from NFS Server.. Done! The target directory has following permissions: drwxr-xr-x 3 vdsm kvm 86 Mar 9 09:12 ovirt I am aware of the issue https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1533500 but the underlying problem seems to be the error message issued by dd (as has been mentioned the earlier posts). Am I missing the obvious somewhere regarding permissions? Is there a known solution/workaround to this? Best, - Michael Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1 85764 Neuherberg www.helmholtz-muenchen.de Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende: MinDir'in Baerbel Brumme-Bothe Geschaeftsfuehrer: Prof. Dr. Guenther Wess, Heinrich Bassler, Dr. Alfons Enhsen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 6466 USt-IdNr: DE 129521671