[Users] oVirt 3.4.0 beta - Hosted Engine Setup -- issues

[Brad House]

I'm trying to test out the oVirt Hosted Engine, but am experiencing a
failure early on and was hoping someone could point me in the right
direction.   I'm not familiar enough with the architecture of oVirt
to start to debug this situation.

Basically, I run the "hosted-engine --deploy" command and it outputs:

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[ INFO  ] Stage: Initializing
           Continuing will configure this host for serving as hypervisor and create a VM where you have to install oVirt Engine afterwards.
           Are you sure you want to continue? (Yes, No)[Yes]:
[ INFO  ] Generating a temporary VNC password.
[ INFO  ] Stage: Environment setup
           Configuration files: []
           Log file: /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-20140122110741.log
           Version: otopi-1.2.0_beta (otopi-1.2.0-0.1.beta.fc19)
[ INFO  ] Hardware supports virtualization
[ INFO  ] Bridge ovirtmgmt already created
[ INFO  ] Stage: Environment packages setup
[ INFO  ] Stage: Programs detection
[ INFO  ] Stage: Environment setup
[ INFO  ] Waiting for VDSM hardware info
[ INFO  ] Waiting for VDSM hardware info
[ INFO  ] Waiting for VDSM hardware info
[ INFO  ] Waiting for VDSM hardware info
[ INFO  ] Waiting for VDSM hardware info
[ INFO  ] Waiting for VDSM hardware info
[ INFO  ] Waiting for VDSM hardware info
[ INFO  ] Waiting for VDSM hardware info
[ INFO  ] Waiting for VDSM hardware info
[ INFO  ] Waiting for VDSM hardware info
[ INFO  ] Stage: Environment customization

           --== STORAGE CONFIGURATION ==--

           During customization use CTRL-D to abort.
[ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Environment customization': [Errno 111] Connection refused
[ INFO  ] Stage: Clean up
[ INFO  ] Stage: Pre-termination
[ INFO  ] Stage: Termination
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/var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-20140122110741.log has:
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2014-01-22 11:07:57 DEBUG otopi.plugins.ovirt_hosted_engine_setup.storage.storage storage._check_existing_pools:631 getConnectedStoragePoolsList
2014-01-22 11:07:57 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:152 method exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/otopi/context.py", line 142, in _executeMethod
     method['method']()
   File "/usr/share/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/scripts/../plugins/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/storage/storage.py", line 729, in _customization
     self._check_existing_pools()
   File "/usr/share/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/scripts/../plugins/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/storage/storage.py", line 632, in _check_existing_pools
     pools = self.serv.s.getConnectedStoragePoolsList()
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1224, in __call__
     return self.__send(self.__name, args)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1578, in __request
     verbose=self.__verbose
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1264, in request
     return self.single_request(host, handler, request_body, verbose)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1292, in single_request
     self.send_content(h, request_body)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1439, in send_content
     connection.endheaders(request_body)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 969, in endheaders
     self._send_output(message_body)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 829, in _send_output
     self.send(msg)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 791, in send
     self.connect()
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/SecureXMLRPCServer.py", line 188, in connect
     sock = socket.create_connection((self.host, self.port), self.timeout)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/socket.py", line 571, in create_connection
     raise err
error: [Errno 111] Connection refused
2014-01-22 11:07:57 ERROR otopi.context context._executeMethod:161 Failed to execute stage 'Environment customization': [Errno 111] Connection refused
========================

Unfortunately I do not know what service this is trying to connect to, or what hostname
or port to try to start debugging that.

Some other useful information about my environment:

- Fedora 19 (64bit), minimal install, selected 'standard' add-on utilities.  This was a
   fresh install just for this test.
   - 512MB /boot ext4
   - 80GB / ext4 in LVM, 220GB free in VG
- "yum -y update" performed to get all latest updates
- SElinux in permissive mode
- Hardware:
   - Supermicro 1026T-URF barebones
   - single CPU populated (Xeon E5630 4x2.53GHz)
   - 12GB ECC DDR3 RAM
   - H/W Raid with SSDs
- Networking:
   - Network Manager DISABLED
   - 4 GbE ports (p2p1, p2p2, em1, em2)
   - all 4 ports configured in a bond (bond0) using balance-alb
   - ovirtmgmt bridge pre-created with 'bond0' as the only member, assigned a static IP address
   - firewall DISABLED
- /etc/yum.repos.d/ovirt.rep has ONLY the 3.4.0 beta repo enabled:
[ovirt-3.4.0-beta]
name=3.4.0 beta testing repo for the oVirt project
baseurl=http://ovirt.org/releases/3.4.0-beta/rpm/Fedora/$releasever/
enabled=1
skip_if_unavailable=1
gpgcheck=0
- only other packages installed were "ntp" and "screen"
- performed "yum install ovirt-hosted-engine-setup" then "screen" then "hosted-engine --deploy"



Any guidance or things to test would be _greatly_ appreciated.

Thanks!
-Brad