diff --git a/lib/vagrant.rb b/lib/vagrant.rb
index 2fcb880dd..884c198ff 100644
--- a/lib/vagrant.rb
+++ b/lib/vagrant.rb
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ module Vagrant
   autoload :Errors,        'vagrant/errors'
   autoload :Hosts,         'vagrant/hosts'
   autoload :Plugin,        'vagrant/plugin'
+  autoload :Provisioners,  'vagrant/provisioners'
   autoload :Registry,      'vagrant/registry'
   autoload :SSH,           'vagrant/ssh'
   autoload :TestHelpers,   'vagrant/test_helpers'
@@ -100,7 +101,6 @@ Vagrant.provisioners.register(:shell)         { Vagrant::Provisioners::Shell }
 
 # Load the things which must be loaded before anything else.
 require 'vagrant/command'
-require 'vagrant/provisioners'
 require 'vagrant/systems'
 require 'vagrant/version'
 Vagrant::Plugin.load!
diff --git a/lib/vagrant/provisioners.rb b/lib/vagrant/provisioners.rb
index 6393a889e..65046d07b 100644
--- a/lib/vagrant/provisioners.rb
+++ b/lib/vagrant/provisioners.rb
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 # These aren't autoloaded because they have to register things such
 # as configuration classes right away with Vagrant.
-require 'vagrant/provisioners/base'
-require 'vagrant/provisioners/chef'
-require 'vagrant/provisioners/chef_client'
-require 'vagrant/provisioners/chef_solo'
-require 'vagrant/provisioners/puppet'
-require 'vagrant/provisioners/puppet_server'
-require 'vagrant/provisioners/shell'
+module Vagrant
+  module Provisioners
+    autoload :Base,         'vagrant/provisioners/base'
+    autoload :ChefSolo,     'vagrant/provisioners/chef_solo'
+    autoload :ChefClient,   'vagrant/provisioners/chef_client'
+    autoload :Puppet,       'vagrant/provisioners/puppet'
+    autoload :PuppetServer, 'vagrant/provisioners/puppet_server'
+    autoload :Shell,        'vagrant/provisioners/shell'
+  end
+end
diff --git a/lib/vagrant/provisioners/chef_client.rb b/lib/vagrant/provisioners/chef_client.rb
index 3c2630f95..a2f9da3c7 100644
--- a/lib/vagrant/provisioners/chef_client.rb
+++ b/lib/vagrant/provisioners/chef_client.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 require 'pathname'
 
+require 'vagrant/provisioners/chef'
+
 module Vagrant
   module Provisioners
     # This class implements provisioning via chef-client, allowing provisioning
diff --git a/lib/vagrant/provisioners/chef_solo.rb b/lib/vagrant/provisioners/chef_solo.rb
index 54ec7241e..13ce79bde 100644
--- a/lib/vagrant/provisioners/chef_solo.rb
+++ b/lib/vagrant/provisioners/chef_solo.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+require 'vagrant/provisioners/chef'
+
 module Vagrant
   module Provisioners
     # This class implements provisioning via chef-solo.