diff --git a/ubuntu16_files/Vagrantfile b/ubuntu16_files/Vagrantfile
index fb5388c223bec10f29a49c0aadfc9218b98a1d54..9624131fca6d4114d237bc9ff17b2ca974871e6d 100644
--- a/ubuntu16_files/Vagrantfile
+++ b/ubuntu16_files/Vagrantfile
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
     # README step 0, unpack tarball.
     zipr_toolchain.vm.provision "shell", privileged: false, inline: <<-SHELL
 	cd /home/vagrant
+	echo "Extracting zipr_toolchain.tgz into VM."
 	tar xzf /vagrant/zipr_toolchain.tgz
     SHELL
 
diff --git a/ubuntu16_files/generate_ais_installer.sh b/ubuntu16_files/generate_ais_installer.sh
index 9c54067703399a5aa924595abd6f3c80db241db7..e2229b294b906c901b3f6a99f72f3e6455c373b0 100755
--- a/ubuntu16_files/generate_ais_installer.sh
+++ b/ubuntu16_files/generate_ais_installer.sh
@@ -4,5 +4,9 @@ cd $PEASOUP_UMBRELLA_DIR
 
 ./regen_install.sh ida ps zipr ubuntu16 stars
 cp -r installed zipr_toolchain
+
+echo "Creating zipr_toolchain.tgz" 
 tar czf ubuntu16_files/zipr_toolchain.tgz zipr_toolchain
 rm -Rf zipr_toolchain
+
+$PEDI_HOME/pedi -c -m manifest.txt