diff --git a/plugins/provisioners/docker/cap/redhat/docker_install.rb b/plugins/provisioners/docker/cap/redhat/docker_install.rb
index 70347b4a4..a7374696d 100644
--- a/plugins/provisioners/docker/cap/redhat/docker_install.rb
+++ b/plugins/provisioners/docker/cap/redhat/docker_install.rb
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ module VagrantPlugins
       module Redhat
         module DockerInstall
           def self.docker_install(machine, version)
+            if version != :latest
+              machine.ui.warn(I18n.t("vagrant.docker_install_with_version_not_supported"))
+            end
+
             machine.communicate.tap do |comm|
               if ! comm.test("rpm -qa | grep epel-release")
                 comm.sudo("rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm")
diff --git a/templates/locales/en.yml b/templates/locales/en.yml
index 87bfcdc11..abf9a4da4 100644
--- a/templates/locales/en.yml
+++ b/templates/locales/en.yml
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ en:
     docker_auto_start_not_available: |-
       Unable to configure automatic restart of Docker containers on
       the guest machine
+    docker_install_with_version_not_supported: |-
+      Vagrant is not capable of installing an specific version of Docker
+      onto the guest machine and the latest version will be installed.
     plugin_needs_reinstall: |-
       The following plugins were installed with a version of Vagrant
       that had different versions of underlying components. Because