Custom ssh connection fails with vagrant builder

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Hello,
I try without success to customize the ssh communicator details doing this :

source "vagrant" "base" {
  source_path = "./builds/rocky8-base.box"
  output_dir  = "./builds-dev"
  provider    = "libvirt"

  communicator = "ssh"
  ssh_username = "root"
  ssh_password = "changeme"
}

build {
  sources = ["source.vagrant.base"]

  provisioner "ansible" {
    playbook_file = "./ansible/playbook.yml"
  }
}

packer (1.7.3) hangs forever waiting for ssh to become available.

I can log into the vm using the ssh details above and the systemctl status sshd reports invalid connections from the vagrant user.
Am I missing something obvious ? (I attempted to define the same thing in json, same result)
Best,
Matthieu