diff --git a/tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh b/tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh
index 86af65f69..7934ab958 100755
--- a/tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh
+++ b/tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ function deploy_kata() {
 	fi
 
 	if [ "${KATA_HOST_OS}" = "cbl-mariner" ]; then
-		yq -i ".env.allowedHypervisorAnnotations = \"image kernel default_vcpus\"" "${values_yaml}"
+		yq -i ".env.allowedHypervisorAnnotations = \"image kernel default_vcpus kernel_params\"" "${values_yaml}"
 		yq -i ".env.hostOS = \"${KATA_HOST_OS}\""                                   "${values_yaml}"
 	fi
 
diff --git a/tests/integration/kubernetes/setup.sh b/tests/integration/kubernetes/setup.sh
index f6e44a21b..67c1a711f 100644
--- a/tests/integration/kubernetes/setup.sh
+++ b/tests/integration/kubernetes/setup.sh
@@ -108,10 +108,13 @@ add_cbl_mariner_specific_annotations() {
 		local mariner_annotation_image="io.katacontainers.config.hypervisor.image"
 		local mariner_image_path="/opt/kata/share/kata-containers/kata-containers-mariner.img"
 
+		local mariner_annotation_kernel_params="io.katacontainers.config.hypervisor.kernel_params"
+		local mariner_kernel_params="SYSTEMD_CGROUP_ENABLE_LEGACY_FORCE=1 systemd.legacy_systemd_cgroup_controller=yes systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0"
 		for K8S_TEST_YAML in runtimeclass_workloads_work/*.yaml
 		do
 			add_annotations_to_yaml "${K8S_TEST_YAML}" "${mariner_annotation_kernel}" "${mariner_kernel_path}"
 			add_annotations_to_yaml "${K8S_TEST_YAML}" "${mariner_annotation_image}" "${mariner_image_path}"
+			add_annotations_to_yaml "${K8S_TEST_YAML}" "${mariner_annotation_kernel_params}" "${mariner_kernel_params}"
 		done
 	fi
 }