Hi, I am able to connect remote xend using http but whenever I try to connect remote machine using  "virsh -c xen+ssh://root@...../ list" I found following error: libvir: Remote error : socket closed unexpectedly error: failed to connect to the hypervisor libvirtd is running on both systems and netcat is also installed on both machines. Debug log is: node2:/home/waheed#  export LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 node2:/home/waheed# virsh -c xen+ssh://root@node1/ list DEBUG: libvirt.c: virInitialize (register drivers) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virRegisterDriver (registering Test as driver 0) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virRegisterNetworkDriver (registering Test as network driver 0) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virRegisterStorageDriver (registering Test as storage driver 0) DEBUG: xen_internal.c: xenHypervisorInit (Using new hypervisor call: 30002 ) DEBUG: xen_internal.c: xenHypervisorInit (Using hypervisor call v2, sys ver6 dom ver5 ) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virRegisterDriver (registering Xen as driver 1) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virRegisterDriver (registering OPENVZ as driver 2) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virRegisterDriver (registering remote as driver 3) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virRegisterNetworkDriver (registering remote as network driver 1) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virRegisterStorageDriver (registering remote as storage driver 1) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virRegisterDeviceMonitor (registering remote as device driver 0) DEBUG: libvirt.c: virConnectOpenAuth (name=xen+ssh://root@node1/, auth=0xb7ed8be0, flags=0) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (name "xen+ssh://root@node1/" to URI components:   scheme xen+ssh   opaque (null)   authority (null)   server node1   user root   port 0   path / ) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (trying driver 0 (Test) ...) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (driver 0 Test returned DECLINED) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (trying driver 1 (Xen) ...) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (driver 1 Xen returned DECLINED) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (trying driver 2 (OPENVZ) ...) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (driver 2 OPENVZ returned DECLINED) DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (trying driver 3 (remote) ...) DEBUG: remote_internal.c: doRemoteOpen (proceeding with name = xen:///) DEBUG: util.c: virExec (ssh -p 22 -l root node1 nc -U /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock) root@node1's password: libvir: Remote error : socket closed unexpectedly DEBUG: libvirt.c: do_open (driver 3 remote returned ERROR) DEBUG: datatypes.c: virUnrefConnect (unref connection 0x9818de0 1) DEBUG: datatypes.c: virReleaseConnect (release connection 0x9818de0) error: failed to connect to the hypervisor Please help me to identify problem. Regards Waheed