That happened to me twice… the second time I figure it out and it was networking. 

I am not familiar with the hosted-engine ---console…

The person that helped me said to do the following:

Run on your first host
   hosted-engine --add-console-password
to set a temporary VNC password and then connect to it over VNC with something like
   remote-viewer vnc://<host>:<port>

Which got me in and allowed me to fix the networking once I saw what was wrong…  can you get to the console like that?

Regards

Bill

From: Jayme [mailto:jaymef@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2018 3:38 PM
To: users <users@ovirt.org>
Subject: [ovirt-users] Re: Hosted Engine deploy failed on new HCI build

I haven't had much luck with this yet I completely wiped the three hosts and did the entire install over again from the ground up only this time I used dhcp instead of static IP for the hostedengine deployment and ended up failing again in the exact step as before, waiting for the VM to come back but never does. 

I still feel like it could be network related in some way just not sure how.  Any ideas? 

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 2:25 PM Jayme, <jaymef@gmail.com> wrote:

Latest version of oVirt node 4.2 installed on three hosts.  I completed successfully the cockpit gdeploy process to deploy HCI.  All of that went well with no errors.  I then proceeded to the hosted engine deployment step which eventually failed (log attached). 

This is the current status:

--== Host 1 status ==--

conf_on_shared_storage             : True

Status up-to-date                  : True

Hostname                           : MASKED

Host ID                            : 1

Engine status                      : {"reason": "failed liveliness check", "health": "bad", "vm": "up", "detail": "Up"}

Score                              : 3400

stopped                            : False

Local maintenance                  : False

crc32                              : 3fa48e03

local_conf_timestamp               : 8468

Host timestamp                     : 8468

Extra metadata (valid at timestamp):

metadata_parse_version=1

metadata_feature_version=1

timestamp=8468 (Mon Jul 30 14:21:09 2018)

host-id=1

score=3400

vm_conf_refresh_time=8468 (Mon Jul 30 14:21:09 2018)

conf_on_shared_storage=True

maintenance=False

state=EngineStarting

stopped=False

If I do hosted-engine --console I get:

The engine VM is running on this host

Connected to domain HostedEngine

Escape character is ^]

error: internal error: cannot find character device <null>

does anyone know why it may have failed or what I could do to recover from this?  I'm thinking it could have potentially failed due to some problem with network config.  If I could get a console in to the engine VM I might be able to fix it but that serial error above is preventing me from reaching the vm console to diagnose further. 

Log of deploy attached:

Thanks!