diff --git a/src/util/virfile.c b/src/util/virfile.c
index 263c92667cb05b0a8929a041656cdb684c50d92a..271bf5e796c1a8fdedac4585a7d6e1da960b219e 100644
--- a/src/util/virfile.c
+++ b/src/util/virfile.c
@@ -3465,6 +3465,9 @@ int virFilePrintf(FILE *fp, const char *msg, ...)
 # ifndef FUSE_SUPER_MAGIC
 #  define FUSE_SUPER_MAGIC 0x65735546
 # endif
+# ifndef CEPH_SUPER_MAGIC
+#  define CEPH_SUPER_MAGIC 0x00C36400
+# endif
 
 # define PROC_MOUNTS "/proc/mounts"
 
@@ -3607,6 +3610,9 @@ virFileIsSharedFSType(const char *path,
     if ((fstypes & VIR_FILE_SHFS_CIFS) &&
         (f_type == CIFS_SUPER_MAGIC))
         return 1;
+    if ((fstypes & VIR_FILE_SHFS_CEPH) &&
+        (f_type == CEPH_SUPER_MAGIC))
+        return 1;
 
     return 0;
 }
@@ -3769,7 +3775,8 @@ int virFileIsSharedFS(const char *path)
                                  VIR_FILE_SHFS_OCFS |
                                  VIR_FILE_SHFS_AFS |
                                  VIR_FILE_SHFS_SMB |
-                                 VIR_FILE_SHFS_CIFS);
+                                 VIR_FILE_SHFS_CIFS |
+                                 VIR_FILE_SHFS_CEPH);
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/util/virfile.h b/src/util/virfile.h
index 93484e5444ee29fd79a053cd170c26821846135c..65432da13a50d21d9807b65900e43b5b2ca1bb92 100644
--- a/src/util/virfile.h
+++ b/src/util/virfile.h
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ enum {
     VIR_FILE_SHFS_AFS = (1 << 3),
     VIR_FILE_SHFS_SMB = (1 << 4),
     VIR_FILE_SHFS_CIFS = (1 << 5),
+    VIR_FILE_SHFS_CEPH = (1 << 6),
 };
 
 int virFileIsSharedFSType(const char *path, int fstypes) ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(1);
diff --git a/src/util/virstoragefile.c b/src/util/virstoragefile.c
index 70fe551e5f0812a10cf0f35680141f7ad4cfab38..da8e54e0f00acb18ddf0696ad4fe93188b860bb4 100644
--- a/src/util/virstoragefile.c
+++ b/src/util/virstoragefile.c
@@ -1357,7 +1357,8 @@ int virStorageFileIsClusterFS(const char *path)
      */
     return virFileIsSharedFSType(path,
                                  VIR_FILE_SHFS_GFS2 |
-                                 VIR_FILE_SHFS_OCFS);
+                                 VIR_FILE_SHFS_OCFS |
+                                 VIR_FILE_SHFS_CEPH);
 }
 
 #ifdef LVS
diff --git a/tests/virfiledata/mounts3.txt b/tests/virfiledata/mounts3.txt
index 134c6e8f8199972efec2bded8dbd4161f9612379..68eded048c83a4a197a210f7a5627ac62442e2da 100644
--- a/tests/virfiledata/mounts3.txt
+++ b/tests/virfiledata/mounts3.txt
@@ -33,3 +33,5 @@ host:/nfs /nfs nfs4 rw,relatime,vers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,
 dev /nfs/blah devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=4093060,mode=755 0 0
 host:/gv0 /gluster fuse.glusterfs rw 0 0
 root@host:/tmp/mkdir /gluster/sshfs fuse.sshfs rw 0 0
+192.168.0.1:/ceph/data /ceph ceph rw,noatime,name=cephfs,secret=<hidden>,acl,wsize=16777216 0 0
+192.168.0.1,192.168.0.2,192.168.0.3:/ceph/data2 /ceph/multi ceph rw,noatime,name=cephfs,secret=<hidden>,acl,wsize=16777216 0 0
diff --git a/tests/virfilemock.c b/tests/virfilemock.c
index fb6bd5e699b1c67bb50a2f3696afd1916b467c5d..499135d7734c3d58766a6478fb539f5a26a4d653 100644
--- a/tests/virfilemock.c
+++ b/tests/virfilemock.c
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ setmntent(const char *filename, const char *type)
 #ifndef FUSE_SUPER_MAGIC
 # define FUSE_SUPER_MAGIC 0x65735546
 #endif
+#ifndef CEPH_SUPER_MAGIC
+# define CEPH_SUPER_MAGIC 0x00c36400
+#endif
 
 
 static int
@@ -132,6 +135,8 @@ statfs_mock(const char *mtab,
             ftype = CIFS_SUPER_MAGIC;
         } else if (STRPREFIX(mb.mnt_type, "fuse")) {
             ftype = FUSE_SUPER_MAGIC;
+        } else if (STRPREFIX(mb.mnt_type, "ceph")) {
+            ftype = CEPH_SUPER_MAGIC;
         } else {
             /* Everything else is EXT4. We don't care really for other paths. */
             ftype = EXT4_SUPER_MAGIC;
diff --git a/tests/virfiletest.c b/tests/virfiletest.c
index b1cb831bfdb84286237d5b0203fdc9a1ad5b13ab..f90c611ac49398abd828bb07f1384cc8c929bd9a 100644
--- a/tests/virfiletest.c
+++ b/tests/virfiletest.c
@@ -455,6 +455,8 @@ mymain(void)
     DO_TEST_FILE_IS_SHARED_FS_TYPE("mounts3.txt", "/gluster/file", true);
     DO_TEST_FILE_IS_SHARED_FS_TYPE("mounts3.txt", "/gluster/sshfs/file", false);
     DO_TEST_FILE_IS_SHARED_FS_TYPE("mounts3.txt", "/some/symlink/file", true);
+    DO_TEST_FILE_IS_SHARED_FS_TYPE("mounts3.txt", "/ceph/file", true);
+    DO_TEST_FILE_IS_SHARED_FS_TYPE("mounts3.txt", "/ceph/multi/file", true);
 
     return ret != 0 ? EXIT_FAILURE : EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }