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+This directory contains miscellaneous utilities for profiling and
+testing libguestfs.  For more information see guestfs-performance(1).
+
+For libguestfs tools you should look in the specific tool directories
+such as cat/, df/, etc.
+
+For an overview of libguestfs directories, see guestfs-hacking(1).