diff --git a/src/runtime-rs/config/configuration-cloud-hypervisor.toml.in b/src/runtime-rs/config/configuration-cloud-hypervisor.toml.in
index 7eac48c100..daa86edf01 100644
--- a/src/runtime-rs/config/configuration-cloud-hypervisor.toml.in
+++ b/src/runtime-rs/config/configuration-cloud-hypervisor.toml.in
@@ -177,6 +177,15 @@ block_device_driver = "virtio-blk-pci"
 # Default false
 #block_device_cache_direct = true
 
+# Enable pre allocation of VM RAM, default false
+# Enabling this will result in lower container density
+# as all of the memory will be allocated and locked
+# This is useful when you want to reserve all the memory
+# upfront or in the cases where you want memory latencies
+# to be very predictable
+# Default false
+#enable_mem_prealloc = true
+
 # Enable huge pages for VM RAM, default false
 # Enabling this will result in the VM memory
 # being allocated using huge pages.
diff --git a/src/runtime-rs/crates/hypervisor/ch-config/src/convert.rs b/src/runtime-rs/crates/hypervisor/ch-config/src/convert.rs
index 09443323c5..09c14d7b67 100644
--- a/src/runtime-rs/crates/hypervisor/ch-config/src/convert.rs
+++ b/src/runtime-rs/crates/hypervisor/ch-config/src/convert.rs
@@ -285,6 +285,8 @@ impl TryFrom<(MemoryInfo, GuestProtection)> for MemoryConfig {
 
             hotplug_size,
 
+            prefault: mem.enable_mem_prealloc,
+
             ..Default::default()
         };