diff --git a/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h b/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h
index 298d7f41c5..ae2c49c75a 100644
--- a/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h
+++ b/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h
@@ -3497,6 +3497,28 @@ int virDomainFSThaw(virDomainPtr dom,
                     unsigned int nmountpoints,
                     unsigned int flags);
 
+/**
+ * virDomainFSInfo:
+ *
+ * The data structure containing mounted file systems within a guset
+ *
+ */
+typedef struct _virDomainFSInfo virDomainFSInfo;
+typedef virDomainFSInfo *virDomainFSInfoPtr;
+struct _virDomainFSInfo {
+    char *mountpoint; /* path to mount point */
+    char *name;       /* device name in the guest (e.g. "sda1") */
+    char *fstype;     /* filesystem type */
+    size_t ndevAlias; /* number of elements in devAlias */
+    char **devAlias;  /* array of disk device aliases */
+};
+
+void virDomainFSInfoFree(virDomainFSInfoPtr info);
+
+int virDomainGetFSInfo(virDomainPtr dom,
+                       virDomainFSInfoPtr **info,
+                       unsigned int flags);
+
 int virDomainGetTime(virDomainPtr dom,
                      long long *seconds,
                      unsigned int *nseconds,
diff --git a/src/driver-hypervisor.h b/src/driver-hypervisor.h
index ad66629db3..9f26b13c5a 100644
--- a/src/driver-hypervisor.h
+++ b/src/driver-hypervisor.h
@@ -1138,6 +1138,11 @@ typedef int
                       unsigned int nmountpoints,
                       unsigned int flags);
 
+typedef int
+(*virDrvDomainGetFSInfo)(virDomainPtr dom,
+                         virDomainFSInfoPtr **info,
+                         unsigned int flags);
+
 typedef int
 (*virDrvNodeGetFreePages)(virConnectPtr conn,
                           unsigned int npages,
@@ -1390,6 +1395,7 @@ struct _virHypervisorDriver {
     virDrvConnectGetDomainCapabilities connectGetDomainCapabilities;
     virDrvConnectGetAllDomainStats connectGetAllDomainStats;
     virDrvNodeAllocPages nodeAllocPages;
+    virDrvDomainGetFSInfo domainGetFSInfo;
 };
 
 
diff --git a/src/libvirt.c b/src/libvirt.c
index 3abedb4572..86b0daa46f 100644
--- a/src/libvirt.c
+++ b/src/libvirt.c
@@ -1400,6 +1400,74 @@ virConnectOpenAuth(const char *name,
 }
 
 
+/**
+ * virDomainGetFSInfo:
+ * @dom: a domain object
+ * @info: a pointer to a variable to store an array of mount points information
+ * @flags: extra flags; not used yet, so callers should always pass 0
+ *
+ * Get a list of mapping information for each mounted file systems within the
+ * specified guest and the disks.
+ *
+ * Returns the number of returned mount points, or -1 in case of error.
+ * On success, the array of the information is stored into @info. The caller is
+ * responsible for calling virDomainFSInfoFree() on each array element, then
+ * calling free() on @info. On error, @info is set to NULL.
+ */
+int
+virDomainGetFSInfo(virDomainPtr dom,
+                   virDomainFSInfoPtr **info,
+                   unsigned int flags)
+{
+    VIR_DOMAIN_DEBUG(dom, "info=%p, flags=%x", info, flags);
+
+    virResetLastError();
+
+    virCheckDomainReturn(dom, -1);
+    virCheckReadOnlyGoto(dom->conn->flags, error);
+    virCheckNonNullArgGoto(info, error);
+    *info = NULL;
+
+    if (dom->conn->driver->domainGetFSInfo) {
+        int ret = dom->conn->driver->domainGetFSInfo(dom, info, flags);
+        if (ret < 0)
+            goto error;
+        return ret;
+    }
+
+    virReportUnsupportedError();
+
+ error:
+    virDispatchError(dom->conn);
+    return -1;
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * virDomainFSInfoFree:
+ * @info: pointer to a FSInfo object
+ *
+ * Frees all the memory occupied by @info.
+ */
+void
+virDomainFSInfoFree(virDomainFSInfoPtr info)
+{
+    size_t i;
+
+    if (!info)
+        return;
+
+    VIR_FREE(info->mountpoint);
+    VIR_FREE(info->name);
+    VIR_FREE(info->fstype);
+
+    for (i = 0; i < info->ndevAlias; i++)
+        VIR_FREE(info->devAlias[i]);
+    VIR_FREE(info->devAlias);
+}
+
+
+
 /**
  * virConnectClose:
  * @conn: pointer to the hypervisor connection
diff --git a/src/libvirt_public.syms b/src/libvirt_public.syms
index 5f95802fd4..e4c2df198f 100644
--- a/src/libvirt_public.syms
+++ b/src/libvirt_public.syms
@@ -684,4 +684,10 @@ LIBVIRT_1.2.9 {
         virNodeAllocPages;
 } LIBVIRT_1.2.8;
 
+LIBVIRT_1.2.11 {
+    global:
+        virDomainFSInfoFree;
+        virDomainGetFSInfo;
+} LIBVIRT_1.2.9;
+
 # .... define new API here using predicted next version number ....