diff --git a/config/default.go b/config/default.go
index 27bd9872..baa463c4 100644
--- a/config/default.go
+++ b/config/default.go
@@ -203,6 +203,22 @@ func NewConfig() *Config {
 				},
 				LogDriver: "json-file",
 			},
+			"preload-system-images": {
+				Image:      "preload",
+				Privileged: true,
+				Labels: project.NewSliceorMap(map[string]string{
+					DETACH:        "false",
+					SCOPE:         SYSTEM,
+				}),
+				VolumesFrom: []string{
+					"command-volumes",
+					"system-volumes",
+				},
+				Volumes:     []string{
+					"/var/run/system-docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock",
+					"/var/lib/system-docker/preload:/mnt/preload",
+				},
+			},
 			"cloud-init-pre": {
 				Image:      "cloudinit",
 				Privileged: true,
@@ -215,6 +231,9 @@ func NewConfig() *Config {
 				Environment: project.NewMaporslice([]string{
 					"CLOUD_INIT_NETWORK=false",
 				}),
+				Links: []string{
+					"preload-system-images",
+				},
 				VolumesFrom: []string{
 					"command-volumes",
 					"system-volumes",
@@ -246,6 +265,7 @@ func NewConfig() *Config {
 				}),
 				Net: "host",
 				Links: []string{
+					"preload-user-images",
 					"cloud-init-pre",
 					"network",
 				},
@@ -311,6 +331,25 @@ func NewConfig() *Config {
 					"all-volumes",
 				},
 			},
+			"preload-user-images": {
+				Image:      "preload",
+				Privileged: true,
+				Labels: project.NewSliceorMap(map[string]string{
+					DETACH:        "false",
+					SCOPE:         SYSTEM,
+				}),
+				Links: []string{
+					"dockerwait",
+				},
+				VolumesFrom: []string{
+					"command-volumes",
+					"system-volumes",
+				},
+				Volumes:     []string{
+					"/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock",
+					"/var/lib/docker/preload:/mnt/preload",
+				},
+			},
 			"console": {
 				Image:      "console",
 				Privileged: true,
diff --git a/docker/container.go b/docker/container.go
index 1813b3fd..8d95de7a 100644
--- a/docker/container.go
+++ b/docker/container.go
@@ -242,12 +242,6 @@ func (c *Container) requiresUserDocker() bool {
 		return true
 	}
 
-	for _, v := range c.ContainerCfg.Service.Volumes {
-		if strings.Index(v, "/var/run/docker.sock") != -1 {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-
 	return false
 }
 
@@ -267,10 +261,12 @@ func (c *Container) addLink(link string) {
 func (c *Container) parseService() {
 	if c.requiresSyslog() {
 		c.addLink("syslog")
+		log.Infof("[%v]: Implicitly linked to 'syslog'", c.Name)
 	}
 
 	if c.requiresUserDocker() {
 		c.addLink("dockerwait")
+		log.Infof("[%v]: Implicitly linked to 'dockerwait'", c.Name)
 	} else if c.ContainerCfg.Service.Image != "" {
 		client, err := NewClient(c.dockerHost)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -281,6 +277,7 @@ func (c *Container) parseService() {
 		i, _ := client.InspectImage(c.ContainerCfg.Service.Image)
 		if i == nil {
 			c.addLink("network")
+			log.Infof("[%v]: Implicitly linked to 'network'", c.Name)
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/scripts/dockerimages/13-preload b/scripts/dockerimages/13-preload
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..660f1d92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/dockerimages/13-preload
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+FROM base 
+COPY scripts/dockerimages/scripts/preload.sh  /
+CMD ["/preload.sh"]
diff --git a/scripts/dockerimages/scripts/preload.sh b/scripts/dockerimages/scripts/preload.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..d8b67fce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/dockerimages/scripts/preload.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+BASE=${1:-${PRELOAD_DIR}}
+BASE=${BASE:-/mnt/preload}
+
+should_load() {
+    file=${1}
+    if [[ ${file} =~ \.done$ ]]; then echo false
+    elif [ -f ${file} ]; then
+        if [ ! -e ${file}.done ]; then echo true
+        elif [[ $(stat -c %Y ${file}) > $(stat -c %Y ${file}.done) ]]; then echo true
+        else echo false
+        fi
+    else echo false
+    fi
+}
+
+if [ -d ${BASE} ]; then
+    echo Preloading docker images from ${BASE}...
+
+    for file in $(ls ${BASE}); do
+        path=${BASE}/${file}
+        loading=$(should_load ${path})
+        if [ ${loading} == "true" ]; then
+            CAT="cat ${path}"
+            if [[ ${file} =~ \.t?gz$ ]]; then CAT="${CAT} | gunzip"; fi
+            if [[ ${file} =~ \.t?xz$ ]]; then CAT="${CAT} | unxz"; fi
+            CAT="${CAT} | docker load"
+            echo loading from ${path}
+            eval ${CAT} || :
+            touch ${path}.done || :
+        fi
+    done
+
+    echo Done.
+else
+    echo Can not preload images from ${BASE}: not a dir or does not exist.
+fi
+