Trying to connect to remote host via ssh. keys work fine but get this

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Trace -
Unable to open connection to hypervisor URI 'xen+ssh://root@remote.boxdomain.com/':
<class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> virConnectOpenAuth() failed socket closed unexpectedly
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 430, in _open_thread
    None], flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 98, in openAuth
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirtError: virConnectOpenAuth() failed socket closed unexpectedly

Remote Log -
Oct 19 20:12:09 zeus sshd[1332]: Accepted publickey for root from x.x.x.x port 52555 ssh2
Oct 19 20:12:10 zeus sshd[1336]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)

not sure where to go - any way to enable verbose/debug logging?


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