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@@ -59,6 +59,24 @@ If you wish to work on Nomad itself or any of its built-in systems,
 you'll first need [Go](https://www.golang.org) installed on your
 machine (version 1.4+ is *required*).
 
+**Developing with Vagrant**  
+There is an included Vagrantfile that can help bootstrap the process. The
+created virtual machine is based off of Ubuntu 14, and installs several of the
+base libraries that can be used by Nomad. 
+
+To use this virtual machine, checkout Nomad and run `vagrant up` from the root
+of the repository:
+
+```sh
+$ git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad.git
+$ cd nomad
+$ vagrant up
+```
+
+The virtual machine will launch, and a provisioning script will install the
+needed dependencies. 
+
+**Developing locally**  
 For local dev first make sure Go is properly installed, including setting up a
 [GOPATH](https://golang.org/doc/code.html#GOPATH). After setting up Go, you can
 download the required build tools such as vet, cover, godep etc by bootstrapping