Hello Matt, probably the easiest setup to test/evaluate oVirt it to use ORB https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/ovirt-orb/ oVirt Orb | oVirt<https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/ovirt-orb/> oVirt is a free open-source virtualization solution for your entire enterprise www.ovirt.org From version 4.2 you can setup a single node hyper-converged install but it requires more skills and resources. https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/gluster-hyperconverged/chap-Introduction... Introduction | oVirt<https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/gluster-hyperconverged/chap-Introduction.html> Chapter: Introduction. Hyperconvergence is a type of infrastructure system with a software-centric architecture that tightly integrates compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources and other technologies from scratch in a commodity hardware box supported by a single vendor[1]. www.ovirt.org You could also use nested virtualization on KVM and virt-manager, use your host to provide NFS, iscsi or gluster and then provide a nested VM for the engine and hosts. Regards, Paul S. ________________________________ From: Matt R <webmattr@hotmail.com> Sent: 21 January 2020 08:05 To: Tony Brian Albers <tba@kb.dk> Cc: users@ovirt.org <users@ovirt.org> Subject: [ovirt-users] Re: oVirt on a Single Server Caution External Mail: Do not click any links or open any attachments unless you trust the sender and know that the content is safe. That was my original configuration, but I found that it wouldn't let me add the local machine as a host, and so I thought perhaps I needed to use the self-hosted deployment methodology instead. Would a regular engine be better for my deployment type? If so, I can investigate why that isn't working, and start over. Sent from my iPad

On Jan 20, 2020, at 11:46 PM, Tony Brian Albers <tba@kb.dk> wrote:

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On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 07:35 +0000, webmattr@hotmail.com wrote: Hello,

I can't seem to install the self-hosted engine onto local storage. It gives me glustefs, iscsi, fc, and nfs as the available options. I'm using this in a home-lab scenario, and don't have budget/etc. for building out a dedicated NAS for it, or setting up multiple nodes. I like the look of oVirt, and wanted to try it with a couple disposable vm's (plex, and a docker instance I break often). My current best- thought for how to make it work is to setup NFS on the server, and then point the self-hosted engine at the (local) NFS share. Is there a better way to do this that I might be overlooking?*

*Factoring that I don't have the funds to build out a proper storage environment, yet.

(and if anyone asks, I did search for a solution to this, but didn't find anything super helpful. Mostly I found 5+ year old articles on a similar but different scenario).

Well, if you can live with a regular engine(not self-hosted), this works:

https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ovirt....

HTH

/tony

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