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@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ be running a recent Red Hat-based Linux distribution (CentOS 7, RHEL 7, Fedora
 22 - only CentOS 7 is currently tested), but we hope to add support for non-Red
 Hat distributions too.
 
+..  note::
+    Running quickstart.sh commands as root is not suggested or supported.
+
 A quick way to test that your virthost machine is ready to rock is::
 
     ssh root@$VIRTHOST uname -a