Didi, [snip] Thank you for all the details (which I cut from the reply). It's all useful information, and as you noticed, I've not had to install the engine in a while. Moreover....
And, BTW, the appliance is not like ovirt-node - once you install it, it's just a plain normal CentOS machine - you upgrade stuff using 'dnf update' and 'engine-setup', etc.
*THIS* truly answers my underlying question(s). I was concerned that the engine would be like the node, but this assures me it is not, it's just a "faster" way to build the engine VM, but it turns into (effectively) a standard CentOS+Engine VM post-install... Which SHOULD be good enough for what I want to do! (I have the engine running a few extra services, and wanted to make sure I could continue to do so). FWIW, I have a few extra services running on my host, too, but I think I would change that if I ever added additional hardware (currently running single-host). Thank you again for humoring me and answering my questions, even the ones I didn't explicitly ask!
Best regards,
-derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 derek@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant