@@ -2054,16 +2054,15 @@ func (cli *DockerCli) CmdTag(args ...string) error {

 }

 func (cli *DockerCli) pullImage(image string) error {

-	return cli.pullImageCustomOut(image, cli.out)

-}

-

-func (cli *DockerCli) pullImageCustomOut(image string, out io.Writer) error {

-	v := url.Values{}

 	repos, tag := parsers.ParseRepositoryTag(image)

-	// pull only the image tagged 'latest' if no tag was specified

 	if tag == "" {

 		tag = graph.DEFAULTTAG

 	}

+	return cli.pullImageCustomOut(repos, tag, cli.out)

+}

+

+func (cli *DockerCli) pullImageCustomOut(repos string, tag string, out io.Writer) error {

+	v := url.Values{}

 	v.Set("fromImage", repos)

 	v.Set("tag", tag)

@@ -2151,10 +2150,14 @@ 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)

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

+		if tag == "" {

+			tag = graph.DEFAULTTAG

+		}

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

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

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

+		if err = cli.pullImageCustomOut(repos, tag, cli.err); err != nil {

 			return nil, err

 		}

 		// Retry