diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 68eb82d1c..399bb6aa1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
   - Add comments to Vagrantfile to make it detected as Ruby file for
     `vi` and `emacs`. [GH-515]
   - More correct guest addition version checking. [GH-514]
+  - Chef solo support on Windows is improved. [GH-542]
 
 ## 0.8.7 (September 13, 2011)
 
diff --git a/lib/vagrant/provisioners/chef_solo.rb b/lib/vagrant/provisioners/chef_solo.rb
index 2d366893f..90747fb80 100644
--- a/lib/vagrant/provisioners/chef_solo.rb
+++ b/lib/vagrant/provisioners/chef_solo.rb
@@ -77,8 +77,11 @@ module Vagrant
             # Path already exists on the virtual machine. Expand it
             # relative to where we're provisioning.
             remote_path = File.expand_path(path, config.provisioning_path)
-            
-            # Remove drive letter if running on a windows host
+
+            # Remove drive letter if running on a windows host. This is a bit
+            # of a hack but is the most portable way I can think of at the moment
+            # to achieve this. Otherwise, Vagrant attempts to share at some crazy
+            # path like /home/vagrant/c:/foo/bar
             remote_path = remote_path.gsub(/^[a-zA-Z]:/, "")
           end