diff --git a/cmd/control/console_init.go b/cmd/control/console_init.go
index 5d5b0990..449d1d51 100644
--- a/cmd/control/console_init.go
+++ b/cmd/control/console_init.go
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"syscall"
 
+	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+
 	"github.com/codegangsta/cli"
 	"github.com/rancher/os/cmd/cloudinitexecute"
 	"github.com/rancher/os/compose"
@@ -130,6 +132,14 @@ func consoleInitFunc() error {
 		}
 	}
 
+	// mount systemd cgroups
+	if err := os.MkdirAll("/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd", 0555); err != nil {
+		log.Error(err)
+	}
+	if err := unix.Mount("cgroup", "/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd", "cgroup", 0, "none,name=systemd"); err != nil {
+		log.Error(err)
+	}
+
 	// font backslashes need to be escaped for when issue is output! (but not the others..)
 	if err := ioutil.WriteFile("/etc/issue", []byte(config.Banner), 0644); err != nil {
 		log.Error(err)