I'm trying to deploy oVirt from a self-hosted engine, but at the last step I get an engine startup error. [ INFO ] TASK [Wait for the engine to come up on the target VM] [ ERROR ] fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"attempts": 120, "changed": true, "cmd": ["hosted-engine", "--vm-status", "--json"], "delta": "0:00:00.181846", "end": "2022-03-28 15:41:28.853150", "rc": 0, "start": "2022-03-28 15:41:28.671304", "stderr": "", "stderr_lines": [], "stdout": "{\"1\": {\"conf_on_shared_storage\": true, \"live-data\": true, \"extra\": \"metadata_parse_version=1\\nmetadata_feature_version=1\\ntimestamp=5537 (Mon Mar 28 15:41:20 2022)\\nhost-id=1\\nscore=3400\\nvm_conf_refresh_time=5537 (Mon Mar 28 15:41:20 2022)\\nconf_on_shared_storage=True\\nmaintenance=False\\nstate=EngineStarting\\nstopped=False\\n\", \"hostname\": \"v2.test.ru\", \"host-id\": 1, \"engine-status\": {\"reason\": \"failed liveliness check\", \"health\": \"bad\", \"vm\": \"up\", \"detail\": \"Up\"}, \"score\": 3400, \"stopped\": false, \"maintenance\": false, \"crc32\": \"4d2eeaea\", \"local_conf_timestamp\": 5537, \"host-ts\": 5537}, \"global_maintenance\": false}", "stdout_lines": ["{\"1\": {\"conf_on_shared_storage\": true, \"live-data\": true, \"extra\": \"metadata_parse_version=1\\nmetadata_feature_version=1\\ntimestamp=5537 (Mon Mar 28 15:41:20 2022)\\nhost-id=1\\nscore=3400\\nvm_conf_refresh_time=5537 (Mon Mar 28 15:41:20 2022)\\nconf_on_shared_storage=True\\nmaintenance=False\\nstate=EngineStarting\\nstopped=False\\n\", \"hostname\": \"v2.test.ru\", \"host-id\": 1, \"engine-status\": {\"reason\": \"failed liveliness check\", \"health\": \"bad\", \"vm\": \"up\", \"detail\": \"Up\"}, \"score\": 3400, \"stopped\": false, \"maintenance\": false, \"crc32\": \"4d2eeaea\", \"local_conf_timestamp\": 5537, \"host-ts\": 5537}, \"global_maintenance\": false}"]} Аfter the installation is completed, the condition of the engine is as follows: Engine status: {"reason": "failed liveliness check", "health": "bad", "vm": "up", "detail": "Up"} After reading the vdsm.logs, I found that qemu-guest-agent failed to connect to the engine for some reason. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/virt/vm.py", line 5400, in qemuGuestAgentShutdown self._dom.shutdownFlags(libvirt.VIR_DOMAIN_SHUTDOWN_GUEST_AGENT) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/virt/virdomain.py", line 98, in f ret = attr(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/common/libvirtconnection.py", line 130, in wrapper ret = f(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/common/function.py", line 92, in wrapper return func(inst, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 2517, in shutdownFlags if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainShutdownFlags() failed', dom=self) libvirtError: Guest agent is not responding: QEMU guest agent is not connected During the installation phase, qemu-guest-agent on the guest VM is running. Setting a temporary password (hosted-engine --add-console-password --password) and connecting via VNC also failed. Using "hosted-engine --console" also failed to connect The engine VM is running on this host Connected to HostedEngine domain Escaping character: ^] error: internal error: character device <null> not found The network settings are configured using static addressing, without DHCP. It seems to me that this is due to the fact that the engine receives an IP address that does not match the entry in /etc/hosts, but I do not know how to fix it. Any help is welcome, I will provide the necessary logs. Thanks