Trouble activating host on RHEV3.0

Here's the setup:

60day RHEV 3.0 evaluation.

RHEV Virtualization Manager running on a VM

RHEV Hypervisor running on a Dell laptop with virtualization enabled

Trouble: Adding the host to the Default cluster is not an issue. However, trying to "Activate" the host results in a "Host xxxx is non-responsive" error in the Events tab. Trouble is that I do not even know where to begin to check for issues.

Can someone here point me to where I can possibly start looking - logs etc - so I can get past this issue?

A bit of search took me to "vdsm" so I started looking... One thing I noticed in the vdsm log on the RHEV Hypervisor (if of any use) - /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log - is :

MainThread::ERROR::2012-03-29 08:16:12,103::vdsm::74::vds::(run) Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/share/vdsm//vdsm", line 72, in run

serve_clients(log)

File "/usr/share/vdsm//vdsm", line 40, in serve_clients cif = clientIF.clientIF(log)

File "/usr/share/vdsm/clientIF.py", line 92, in __init__

File "/usr/share/vdsm/libvirtconnection.py", line 94, in get

File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 102, in openAuth

libvirtError: authentication failed: authentication failed

and trying to start vdsmd results in:

/etc/init.d/vdsmd start

vdsm: Missing certificates, vdsm not registered [FAILED]

Starting iscsid:

Starting up vdsm daemon:

vdsm start [ OK ]