Thanks very for the reply Marcos. I tried another deployment, just to see if "wait for the host to be up" would time out, and I saw a couple of errors in the log: From the ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-ansible-final_clean log, it mentions that the VM IP is undefined: 2024-01-23 12:50:19,554+0000 DEBUG otopi.ovirt_hosted_engine_setup.ansible_utils ansible_utils._process_output:109 {'msg': "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'local_vm_ip' is undefined. 'local_vm_ip' is undefined\n\nThe error appears to be in '/usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/ovirt/ovirt/roles/hosted_engine_setup/tasks/sync_on_engine_machine.yml': line 2, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n---\n- name: Set the name for add_host\n ^ here\n", '_ansible_no_log': False} In the ovirt-hosted-engine-setuplog, it mentions not being able to get the storage pool: 2024-01-23 12:50:35,787+0000 DEBUG otopi.ovirt_hosted_engine_setup.ansible_utils ansible_utils._process_output:109 {'changed': True, 'stdout': '', 'stderr': "error: failed to get pool 'localvmvy8whst5'\nerror: Storage pool not found: no storage pool with matching name 'localvmvy8whst5'", 'rc': 1, 'cmd': ['virsh', '-c', 'qemu:///system?authfile=/etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/virsh_auth.conf', 'pool-destroy', 'localvmvy8whst5'], 'start': '2024-01-23 12:50:35.558666', 'end': '2024-01-23 12:50:35.611808', 'delta': '0:00:00.053142', 'msg': 'non-zero return code', 'invocation': {'module_args': {'_raw_params': 'virsh -c qemu:///system?authfile=/etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/virsh_auth.conf pool-destroy localvmvy8whst5', '_uses_shell': False, 'stdin_add_newline': True, 'strip_empty_ends': True, 'argv': None, 'chdir': None, 'executable': None, 'creates': None, 'removes': None, 'stdin': None}}, 'stdout_lines': [], 'stderr_lines': ["error: failed to get pool 'localvmvy8whst5'", "error: Storage pool not fou nd: no storage pool with matching name 'localvmvy8whst5'"], '_ansible_no_log': None} I set the IP to the one I have assigned in DNS, but when I attach to the console of the VM (which is still running, though the disk image has been deleted) via virsh, it shows me a completely different IP: In hosted-engine --deploy, I set a 10.0.0.x address, however, it shows a 192.168.1.x address on the VM. Do I need to set this somewhere else, e.g., with '--ansible-extra-vars=he_ipv4_subnet_prefix='? As for the storage pool, is that for later VM deployment? The deploy script did not ask me for a storage location. If I need to specify this, where do I do this? Thanks again for any help, Kind regards, Cam PS: is there a simple way to have the answers saved so I don't have to keep running through all the questions every time I try a deployment