@@ -2158,7 +2158,11 @@ func (cli *DockerCli) createContainer(config *runconfig.Config, hostConfig *runc

 	stream, statusCode, err := cli.call("POST", "/containers/create?"+containerValues.Encode(), mergedConfig, false)

 	//if image not found try to pull it

 	if statusCode == 404 {

-		fmt.Fprintf(cli.err, "Unable to find image '%s' locally\n", config.Image)

+		repo, tag := parsers.ParseRepositoryTag(config.Image)

+		if tag == "" {

+			tag = graph.DEFAULTTAG

+		}

+		fmt.Fprintf(cli.err, "Unable to find image '%s:%s' locally\n", repo, tag)

 		// we don't want to write to stdout anything apart from container.ID

 		if err = cli.pullImageCustomOut(config.Image, cli.err); err != nil {