diff --git a/v2/ansible/executor/playbook_executor.py b/v2/ansible/executor/playbook_executor.py
index 94bdbf01e1f..ad9570963aa 100644
--- a/v2/ansible/executor/playbook_executor.py
+++ b/v2/ansible/executor/playbook_executor.py
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ class PlaybookExecutor:
 
                 if entry:
                     entrylist.append(entry) # per playbook
+                self._display.vvvvv('%d plays in %s' % (i, playbook_path))
 
             if entrylist:
                 return entrylist
diff --git a/v2/ansible/utils/display.py b/v2/ansible/utils/display.py
index dd44d61dd30..62dbeabca51 100644
--- a/v2/ansible/utils/display.py
+++ b/v2/ansible/utils/display.py
@@ -26,11 +26,9 @@ from ansible.utils.color import stringc
 
 class Display:
 
-    def __init__(self, conn_info=None):
-        if conn_info:
-            self._verbosity = conn_info.verbosity
-        else:
-            self._verbosity = 0
+    def __init__(self, verbosity=0):
+
+        self.verbosity = verbosity
 
         # list of all deprecation messages to prevent duplicate display
         self._deprecations = {}
@@ -70,10 +68,13 @@ class Display:
     def vvvv(self, msg, host=None):
         return self.verbose(msg, host=host, caplevel=3)
 
+    def vvvvv(self, msg, host=None):
+        return self.verbose(msg, host=host, caplevel=4)
+
     def verbose(self, msg, host=None, caplevel=2):
         # FIXME: this needs to be implemented
         #msg = utils.sanitize_output(msg)
-        if self._verbosity > caplevel:
+        if self.verbosity > caplevel:
             if host is None:
                 self.display(msg, color='blue')
             else:
@@ -124,4 +125,3 @@ class Display:
             star_len = 3
         stars = "*" * star_len
         self.display("\n%s %s" % (msg, stars), color=color)
-
diff --git a/v2/bin/ansible b/v2/bin/ansible
index 415a12af2c2..7d2f01bc5c5 100755
--- a/v2/bin/ansible
+++ b/v2/bin/ansible
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ class Cli(object):
             parser.print_help()
             sys.exit(1)
 
+        display.verbosity = options.verbosity
         validate_conflicts(parser,options)
 
         return (options, args)
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ class Cli(object):
 
         if options.listhosts:
             for host in hosts:
-                self.display('    %s' % host.name)
+                self.display.display('    %s' % host.name)
             sys.exit(0)
 
         if ((options.module_name == 'command' or options.module_name == 'shell') and not options.module_args):
@@ -163,7 +164,7 @@ class Cli(object):
 if __name__ == '__main__':
 
     display = Display()
-    #display.display(" ".join(sys.argv), log_only=True)
+    #display.display(" ".join(sys.argv))
 
     try:
         cli = Cli(display=display)
diff --git a/v2/bin/ansible-playbook b/v2/bin/ansible-playbook
index 49748129e12..79c2eed785d 100755
--- a/v2/bin/ansible-playbook
+++ b/v2/bin/ansible-playbook
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ def main(display, args):
         parser.print_help(file=sys.stderr)
         return 1
 
+    display.verbosity = options.verbosity
     validate_conflicts(parser,options)
 
     # Note: slightly wrong, this is written so that implicit localhost
@@ -154,7 +155,7 @@ def main(display, args):
 if __name__ == "__main__":
 
     display = Display()
-    display.display(" ".join(sys.argv), log_only=True)
+    #display.display(" ".join(sys.argv), log_only=True)
 
     try:
         sys.exit(main(display, sys.argv[1:]))