diff --git a/maas-setup.sh b/maas-setup.sh
index 911600f..ab804e6 100644
--- a/maas-setup.sh
+++ b/maas-setup.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 # Copyright 2012-2021 Canonical Ltd.  This software is licensed under the
 # GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (see the file LICENSE).
 
+# README FIRST
+# You need a reasonably powerful bare metal machine, 4 or more cores with 32 GB of RAM and 500GB of free disk space. Assumes a fresh install of Ubuntu server (20.04 or higher) on the machine.
+# The reason you need a bare metal machine is because nesting multiple layers of VMs will not work and/or have performance problems.
+# Note: this tutorial has not been tested on versions prior to 20.04.
+
 # lxd / maas issue. either upgrade lxd or maas to 3.1
 sudo snap switch --channel=latest/stable lxd
+sudo snap install lxd
 sudo snap refresh lxd
 sudo snap install jq
 sudo snap install --channel=3.1/edge maas