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@@ -772,6 +772,13 @@ Some internal mounts are not shown.
This moves a file from C<src> to C<dest> where C<dest> is
either a destination filename or destination directory.
+=item $h->ping_daemon ();
+
+This is a test probe into the guestfs daemon running inside
+the qemu subprocess. Calling this function checks that the
+daemon responds to the ping message, without affecting the daemon
+or attached block device(s) in any other way.
+
=item $h->pvcreate ($device);
This creates an LVM physical volume on the named C<device>,