diff --git a/test_data/cloud-init/clear/openstack/latest/user_data b/test_data/cloud-init/clear/openstack/latest/user_data
index 021fbfa3b..62c33fa57 100644
--- a/test_data/cloud-init/clear/openstack/latest/user_data
+++ b/test_data/cloud-init/clear/openstack/latest/user_data
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ write_files:
         bash -c "echo 1af4 1041 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/new_id"
         bash -c "echo 0000:00:06.0 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:06.0/driver/unbind"
         bash -c "echo 1af4 1041 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/vfio-pci/new_id"
-        # 512M ram requires 256 pages
-        echo 256 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
+        # 1G ram requires 512 pages
+        echo 512 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
         sudo chmod a+rwX /dev/hugepages
-        /mnt/cloud-hypervisor --kernel /mnt/vmlinux --cmdline "console=hvc0 reboot=k panic=1 nomodules i8042.noaux i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.dumbkbd root=PARTUUID=6fb4d1a8-6c8c-4dd7-9f7c-1fe0b9f2574c VFIOTAG" --disk path=/mnt/clear-31311-cloudguest.img path=/mnt/cloudinit.img --cpus boot=1 --memory size=512M,file=/dev/hugepages --device path=/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:05.0/ path=/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:06.0/ --api-socket /tmp/ch_api.sock
+        /mnt/cloud-hypervisor --kernel /mnt/vmlinux --cmdline "console=hvc0 reboot=k panic=1 nomodules i8042.noaux i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.dumbkbd root=PARTUUID=6fb4d1a8-6c8c-4dd7-9f7c-1fe0b9f2574c VFIOTAG" --disk path=/mnt/clear-31311-cloudguest.img path=/mnt/cloudinit.img --cpus boot=1 --memory size=512M,hotplug_size=1G,file=/dev/hugepages --device path=/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:05.0/ path=/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:06.0/ --api-socket /tmp/ch_api.sock
diff --git a/tests/integration.rs b/tests/integration.rs
index 54418899b..d148ad34e 100644
--- a/tests/integration.rs
+++ b/tests/integration.rs
@@ -692,6 +692,14 @@ mod tests {
                 .map_err(Error::Parsing)?)
         }
 
+        fn get_total_memory_l2(&self) -> Result<u32, Error> {
+            Ok(self
+                .ssh_command_l2_1("grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo | grep -o \"[0-9]*\"")?
+                .trim()
+                .parse()
+                .map_err(Error::Parsing)?)
+        }
+
         fn get_entropy(&self) -> Result<u32, Error> {
             Ok(self
                 .ssh_command("cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail")?
@@ -2445,7 +2453,7 @@ mod tests {
 
             let mut child = GuestCommand::new(&guest)
                 .args(&["--cpus", "boot=4"])
-                .args(&["--memory", "size=1G,file=/dev/hugepages"])
+                .args(&["--memory", "size=2G,file=/dev/hugepages"])
                 .args(&["--kernel", kernel_path.to_str().unwrap()])
                 .default_disks()
                 .args(&[
@@ -2597,6 +2605,27 @@ mod tests {
                 7,
             );
 
+            // Perform memory hotplug in L2 and validate the memory is showing
+            // up as expected. In order to check, we will use the virtio-net
+            // device already passed through L2 as a VFIO device, this will
+            // verify that VFIO devices are functional with memory hotplug.
+            aver!(
+                tb,
+                guest.get_total_memory_l2().unwrap_or_default() > 491_000
+            );
+            guest.ssh_command_l2_1(
+                "sudo bash -c 'echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks'",
+            )?;
+            guest.ssh_command_l1(
+                "sudo /mnt/ch-remote \
+                 --api-socket=/tmp/ch_api.sock \
+                 resize --memory=1073741824",
+            )?;
+            aver!(
+                tb,
+                guest.get_total_memory_l2().unwrap_or_default() > 982_000
+            );
+
             let _ = child.kill();
             let _ = daemon_child.kill();
             let _ = child.wait();