diff --git a/docs/getting-started-guides/locally.md b/docs/getting-started-guides/locally.md
index d1e21a4b5d2..58ae8c1cd86 100644
--- a/docs/getting-started-guides/locally.md
+++ b/docs/getting-started-guides/locally.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 ## Getting started locally
 
+### Requirements 
+
+ - Linux 
+ - Docker 1.0.0+
+
+Not running Linux? Consider running Linux in a local virtual machine with [Vagrant](vagrant.md), or on a cloud provider like [Google Compute Engine](gce.md)
+
 In a separate tab of your terminal, run:
 
 ```
@@ -59,4 +66,4 @@ You are running a single minion setup.  This has the limitation of only supporti
 cd kubernetes
 hack/build-go.sh
 hack/local-up-cluster.sh
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```