Description of problem: Because virt-manager has no Requires: openssh-askpass, these errors occur when attempting to connect to a remote QEMU over SSH: Unable to open a connection to the libvirt management daemon. Libvirt URI is: qemu+ssh://root@someremotehost/system Verify that: - The 'libvirtd' daemon has been started Cannot recv data: ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied, please try again. ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied, please try again. ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Received disconnect from 10.11.12.13: 2: Too many authentication failures for root : Connection reset by peer Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1146, in _open_thread self.vmm = self._try_open() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1130, in _try_open flags) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 102, in openAuth if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed') libvirtError: Cannot recv data: ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied, please try again. ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Permission denied, please try again. ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory Received disconnect from 10.11.12.13: 2: Too many authentication failures for root : Connection reset by peer Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): virt-manager-0.9.0-7.fc16.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install new F16 system 2. yum groupinstall Virtualization 3. Attempt to connect to remote QEMU over SSH Actual results: see above Expected results: no error Additional info: This fixes it: yum install openssh-askpass
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 709184 ***