I know, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager is scheduled to be end-of-life (in 2026). But still wanting to be able to install it, was a bit more difficult. Mainly due the fact it’s EOL (I presume). But here are the installation steps which works for me.

Prerequisites

• Running server with Oracle Linux 8 (Not 9, since no repository available for it) – Minimal Server installation & not updated (yet)
• root or sudo privileges
• Domain name service configured with all host names (reverse lookup as well)
• Have complex password ready to be used

Step 1: Prepare environment

Install this version of the osinfo-db package (and not higher)

yum install osinfo-db-20231215-1.0.1.el8 -y

Exclude it from being updated

echo "exclude=osinfo-db" >> /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

Enable/Configure repositories

dnf config-manager --enable ol8_baseos_latestdnf install oracle-ovirt-release-45-el8 -y

If needed

dnf install kernel-uek-modules-extra -y

Clean up and reboot

dnf clean all
dnf repolist
reboot

Step 2: Install host engine

Install the host engine with the following command

dnf install ovirt-hosted-engine-setup -y

If wanted you can install cockpit as well, but due to an error I would not deploy OVM by using it.

dnf install cockpit-ovirt-dashboard -y

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=9090/tcp
firewall-cmd --reload

systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

Step 3: Configure host engine

Deployment and configuration of host engine is started with the following command:

hosted-engine --deploy --4

Very imported to answer No on the question of keycloak. (reason why it fails in Cockpit)

Step 4: Storage

The installation started in step 3, take a moment to complete. Therefor I use it to configure the storage during that period. So I’m ready when he ask for it.

Configure Additional disk (LVM, minimum 55GB size)

mkdir -p /data/

pvcreate /dev/vdb

vgcreate rhvh /dev/vdb

lvcreate -L 55G rhvh -n data

mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/rhvh-data

Mount the disk

echo "/dev/mapper/rhvh-data /data ext4 defaults,discard 1 2" >> /etc/fstab

mount -a

Set the permissions

chown 36:36 /data
chmod 0755 /data

Configure NFS share, using the disk above.
Install and enable NFS.

dnf install nfs-utils -y
systemctl enable --now nfs-server
systemctl enable --now rpcbind

Configure NFS

echo "/data *(rw)" >> /etc/exports

Restart the services

systemctl restart rpcbind
systemctl restart nfs-server
exportfs -ra
exportfs -v

Open firewall ports

firewall-cmd --add-service=nfs --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload

Now, when arriving at the point to provide storage information, you fill in nfs. And point it towards <Host IP Address>:/data

When this finish you have your environment ready.

Have fun

References:

Self-Hosted Engine Deployment

Bye bye Oracle VM, welcome Oracle Linux KVM

Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager

Oracle Downloads

Oracle Linux Installation Media