diff --git a/docs/schemas/storagepool.rng b/docs/schemas/storagepool.rng
index 66d3c22169..61fa7a3eb3 100644
--- a/docs/schemas/storagepool.rng
+++ b/docs/schemas/storagepool.rng
@@ -381,11 +381,10 @@
           <choice>
             <value>auto</value>
             <value>nfs</value>
+            <value>cifs</value>
+            <value>glusterfs</value>
           </choice>
         </attribute>
-        <optional>
-          <ref name='sourceinfovendor'/>
-        </optional>
       </element>
     </optional>
   </define>
diff --git a/docs/storage.html.in b/docs/storage.html.in
index 118144477c..0464565adb 100644
--- a/docs/storage.html.in
+++ b/docs/storage.html.in
@@ -249,7 +249,8 @@
       a local block device as the source, it requires the name of a
       host and path of an exported directory. It will mount this network
       filesystem and manage files within the directory of its mount
-      point. It will default to using NFS as the protocol.
+      point. It will default to using <code>auto</code> as the
+      protocol, which generally tries a mount via NFS first.
     </p>
 
     <h3>Example pool input</h3>
@@ -259,6 +260,7 @@
         &lt;source&gt;
           &lt;host name="nfs.example.com"/&gt;
           &lt;dir path="/var/lib/virt/images"/&gt;
+          &lt;format type='nfs'/&gt;
         &lt;/source&gt;
         &lt;target&gt;
           &lt;path&gt;/var/lib/virt/images&lt;/path&gt;
@@ -275,10 +277,13 @@
         <code>nfs</code>
       </li>
       <li>
-        <code>glusterfs</code>
+        <code>glusterfs</code> - use the glusterfs FUSE file system.
+        For now, the <code>dir</code> specified as the source can only
+        be a gluster volume name, as gluster does not provide a way to
+        directly mount subdirectories within a volume.
       </li>
       <li>
-        <code>cifs</code>
+        <code>cifs</code> - use the SMB (samba) or CIFS file system
       </li>
     </ul>
 
diff --git a/tests/storagepoolxml2xmlin/pool-netfs-gluster.xml b/tests/storagepoolxml2xmlin/pool-netfs-gluster.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9b39e870ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/storagepoolxml2xmlin/pool-netfs-gluster.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<pool type='netfs'>
+  <source>
+    <host name='example.com'/>
+    <format type='glusterfs'/>
+    <dir path='/volume'/>
+  </source>
+  <name>netfs-gluster</name>
+  <uuid>d5609ced-94b1-489e-b218-eff35c30336a</uuid>
+  <target>
+    <path>/mnt/gluster</path>
+  </target>
+</pool>
diff --git a/tests/storagepoolxml2xmlout/pool-netfs-gluster.xml b/tests/storagepoolxml2xmlout/pool-netfs-gluster.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bab2a15fb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/storagepoolxml2xmlout/pool-netfs-gluster.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+<pool type='netfs'>
+  <name>netfs-gluster</name>
+  <uuid>d5609ced-94b1-489e-b218-eff35c30336a</uuid>
+  <capacity unit='bytes'>0</capacity>
+  <allocation unit='bytes'>0</allocation>
+  <available unit='bytes'>0</available>
+  <source>
+    <host name='example.com'/>
+    <dir path='/volume'/>
+    <format type='glusterfs'/>
+  </source>
+  <target>
+    <path>/mnt/gluster</path>
+    <permissions>
+      <mode>0755</mode>
+      <owner>-1</owner>
+      <group>-1</group>
+    </permissions>
+  </target>
+</pool>
diff --git a/tests/storagepoolxml2xmltest.c b/tests/storagepoolxml2xmltest.c
index 0ae9b298f1..743e1cb86d 100644
--- a/tests/storagepoolxml2xmltest.c
+++ b/tests/storagepoolxml2xmltest.c
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ mymain(void)
     DO_TEST("pool-iscsi");
     DO_TEST("pool-iscsi-auth");
     DO_TEST("pool-netfs");
+    DO_TEST("pool-netfs-gluster");
     DO_TEST("pool-scsi");
     DO_TEST("pool-scsi-type-scsi-host");
     DO_TEST("pool-scsi-type-fc-host");