diff --git a/redis.conf b/redis.conf
index 4d5a685e4..a8188a92e 100644
--- a/redis.conf
+++ b/redis.conf
@@ -318,6 +318,9 @@ slowlog-max-len 1024
 
 ################################ VIRTUAL MEMORY ###############################
 
+### WARNING! Virtual Memory is deprecated in Redis 2.4
+### The use of Virtual Memory is strongly discouraged.
+
 # Virtual Memory allows Redis to work with datasets bigger than the actual
 # amount of RAM needed to hold the whole dataset in memory.
 # In order to do so very used keys are taken in memory while the other keys