diff --git a/src/runtime-rs/crates/resource/src/cpu_mem/initial_size.rs b/src/runtime-rs/crates/resource/src/cpu_mem/initial_size.rs
index 53eccc52bdb4..2a8b6e60083e 100644
--- a/src/runtime-rs/crates/resource/src/cpu_mem/initial_size.rs
+++ b/src/runtime-rs/crates/resource/src/cpu_mem/initial_size.rs
@@ -105,7 +105,12 @@ impl InitialSizeManager {
             hv.cpu_info.default_vcpus = self.resource.vcpu as i32
         }
         if self.resource.mem_mb > 0 {
-            hv.memory_info.default_memory = self.resource.mem_mb;
+            // since the memory overhead introduced by kata-agent and system components
+            // will really affect the amount of memory the user can use, so we choose to
+            // plus the default_memory here, instead of overriding it.
+            // (if we override the default_memory here, and user apllications still
+            // use memory as they orignally expected, it would be easy to OOM.)
+            hv.memory_info.default_memory += self.resource.mem_mb;
         }
         Ok(())
     }
diff --git a/tests/integration/kubernetes/k8s-oom.bats b/tests/integration/kubernetes/k8s-oom.bats
index 5f45ad78a7de..f89b761f807d 100644
--- a/tests/integration/kubernetes/k8s-oom.bats
+++ b/tests/integration/kubernetes/k8s-oom.bats
@@ -9,15 +9,11 @@ load "${BATS_TEST_DIRNAME}/../../common.bash"
 load "${BATS_TEST_DIRNAME}/tests_common.sh"
 
 setup() {
-	[ "${KATA_HYPERVISOR}" == "dragonball" ] && skip "Test is currently failing, see: https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/7271"
-
 	pod_name="pod-oom"
 	get_pod_config_dir
 }
 
 @test "Test OOM events for pods" {
-	[ "${KATA_HYPERVISOR}" == "dragonball" ] && skip "Test is currently failing, see: https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/7271"
-
 	# Create pod
 	kubectl create -f "${pod_config_dir}/$pod_name.yaml"
 
@@ -33,8 +29,6 @@ setup() {
 }
 
 teardown() {
-	[ "${KATA_HYPERVISOR}" == "dragonball" ] && skip "Test is currently failing, see: https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/7271"
-
 	# Debugging information
 	kubectl describe "pod/$pod_name"
 	kubectl get "pod/$pod_name" -o yaml