Comment 4 for bug 989452

> In the meantime, since you are connecting to root@server,
> have you made sure that you can ssh to root@server? In
> the past when I've done that, after creating an ssh key
> and inserting it into root@server's keyring, I had to log in
> once by hand to get past ssh's server key fingerprint verification.

This is a known problem with qemu+ssh. The dialog asking to accept the key pops up, but regardless you click "OK" or "Decline" the key will not be accepted. To solve it you'll have to connect once using plain ssh from commandline. Or set ssh to accept any new key and write it out to ".ssh/known_hosts" ...