diff --git a/images/virt-artifact/patches/099-test-increase-mem-overhead.patch b/images/virt-artifact/patches/099-test-increase-mem-overhead.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2ff718d5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/images/virt-artifact/patches/099-test-increase-mem-overhead.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+diff --git a/pkg/virt-controller/services/template.go b/pkg/virt-controller/services/template.go
+index f607c24786..83d7c4cd5b 100644
+--- a/pkg/virt-controller/services/template.go
++++ b/pkg/virt-controller/services/template.go
+@@ -119,11 +119,11 @@ const EXT_LOG_VERBOSITY_THRESHOLD = 5
+ const ephemeralStorageOverheadSize = "50M"
+ 
+ const (
+-	VirtLauncherMonitorOverhead = "25Mi"  // The `ps` RSS for virt-launcher-monitor
+-	VirtLauncherOverhead        = "100Mi" // The `ps` RSS for the virt-launcher process
+-	VirtlogdOverhead            = "20Mi"  // The `ps` RSS for virtlogd
+-	VirtqemudOverhead           = "35Mi"  // The `ps` RSS for virtqemud
+-	QemuOverhead                = "30Mi"  // The `ps` RSS for qemu, minus the RAM of its (stressed) guest, minus the virtual page table
++	VirtLauncherMonitorOverhead = "250Mi"  // The `ps` RSS for virt-launcher-monitor
++	VirtLauncherOverhead        = "1000Mi" // The `ps` RSS for the virt-launcher process
++	VirtlogdOverhead            = "200Mi"  // The `ps` RSS for virtlogd
++	VirtqemudOverhead           = "350Mi"  // The `ps` RSS for virtqemud
++	QemuOverhead                = "300Mi"  // The `ps` RSS for qemu, minus the RAM of its (stressed) guest, minus the virtual page table
+ 	// Default: limits.memory = 2*requests.memory
+ 	DefaultMemoryLimitOverheadRatio = float64(2.0)
+ )