diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Form/Util/VirtualFormAwareIterator.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Form/Util/VirtualFormAwareIterator.php
index 581e3540e40b..16dbe86e2c43 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Form/Util/VirtualFormAwareIterator.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Form/Util/VirtualFormAwareIterator.php
@@ -25,6 +25,15 @@
  */
 class VirtualFormAwareIterator extends \IteratorIterator implements \RecursiveIterator
 {
+    public function __construct(\Traversable $iterator)
+    {
+        parent::__construct($iterator);
+
+        if ('Symfony\Component\Form\Util\VirtualFormAwareIterator' === get_class()) {
+            trigger_error('class VirtualFormAwareIterator is deprecated since version 2.7 and will be removed in 3.0. Use InheritDataAwareIterator instead.', E_USER_DEPRECATED);
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * {@inheritdoc}
      */