diff --git a/components/engine/commands.go b/components/engine/commands.go
index ef6dce6bd5..638af7f514 100644
--- a/components/engine/commands.go
+++ b/components/engine/commands.go
@@ -469,6 +469,13 @@ func (cli *DockerCli) CmdInfo(args ...string) error {
 		fmt.Fprintf(cli.out, "LXC Version: %s\n", remoteInfo.Get("LXCVersion"))
 		fmt.Fprintf(cli.out, "EventsListeners: %d\n", remoteInfo.GetInt("NEventsListener"))
 		fmt.Fprintf(cli.out, "Kernel Version: %s\n", remoteInfo.Get("KernelVersion"))
+
+		if initSha1 := remoteInfo.Get("InitSha1"); initSha1 != "" {
+			fmt.Fprintf(cli.out, "Init SHA1: %s\n", initSha1)
+		}
+		if initPath := remoteInfo.Get("InitPath"); initPath != "" {
+			fmt.Fprintf(cli.out, "Init Path: %s\n", initPath)
+		}
 	}
 
 	if len(remoteInfo.GetList("IndexServerAddress")) != 0 {
diff --git a/components/engine/server.go b/components/engine/server.go
index 9b492a2927..7aa03a0374 100644
--- a/components/engine/server.go
+++ b/components/engine/server.go
@@ -634,6 +634,13 @@ func (srv *Server) DockerInfo(job *engine.Job) engine.Status {
 		kernelVersion = kv.String()
 	}
 
+	// if we still have the original dockerinit binary from before we copied it locally, let's return the path to that, since that's more intuitive (the copied path is trivial to derive by hand given VERSION)
+	initPath := utils.DockerInitPath("")
+	if initPath == "" {
+		// if that fails, we'll just return the path from the runtime
+		initPath = srv.runtime.sysInitPath
+	}
+
 	v := &engine.Env{}
 	v.SetInt("Containers", len(srv.runtime.List()))
 	v.SetInt("Images", imgcount)
@@ -649,6 +656,8 @@ func (srv *Server) DockerInfo(job *engine.Job) engine.Status {
 	v.SetInt("NEventsListener", len(srv.events))
 	v.Set("KernelVersion", kernelVersion)
 	v.Set("IndexServerAddress", auth.IndexServerAddress())
+	v.Set("InitSha1", utils.INITSHA1)
+	v.Set("InitPath", initPath)
 	if _, err := v.WriteTo(job.Stdout); err != nil {
 		job.Error(err)
 		return engine.StatusErr