diff --git a/src/dragonball/src/api/v1/vmm_action.rs b/src/dragonball/src/api/v1/vmm_action.rs
index 2962994b4b..1bd40cad01 100644
--- a/src/dragonball/src/api/v1/vmm_action.rs
+++ b/src/dragonball/src/api/v1/vmm_action.rs
@@ -428,16 +428,6 @@ impl VmmService {
 
         config.mem_file_path = machine_config.mem_file_path.clone();
 
-        let reserve_memory_bytes = machine_config.reserve_memory_bytes;
-        // Reserved memory must be 2MB aligned and less than half of the total memory.
-        if reserve_memory_bytes % 0x200000 != 0
-            || reserve_memory_bytes > (config.mem_size_mib as u64) << 20
-        {
-            return Err(MachineConfig(InvalidReservedMemorySize(
-                reserve_memory_bytes as usize >> 20,
-            )));
-        }
-        config.reserve_memory_bytes = reserve_memory_bytes;
         if config.mem_type == "hugetlbfs" && config.mem_file_path.is_empty() {
             return Err(MachineConfig(InvalidMemFilePath("".to_owned())));
         }
diff --git a/src/dragonball/src/vm/mod.rs b/src/dragonball/src/vm/mod.rs
index 31b41baed2..e7248a8113 100644
--- a/src/dragonball/src/vm/mod.rs
+++ b/src/dragonball/src/vm/mod.rs
@@ -125,8 +125,6 @@ pub struct VmConfigInfo {
     pub mem_file_path: String,
     /// The memory size in MiB.
     pub mem_size_mib: usize,
-    /// reserve memory bytes
-    pub reserve_memory_bytes: u64,
 
     /// sock path
     pub serial_path: Option<String>,
@@ -149,7 +147,6 @@ impl Default for VmConfigInfo {
             mem_type: String::from("shmem"),
             mem_file_path: String::from(""),
             mem_size_mib: 128,
-            reserve_memory_bytes: 0,
             serial_path: None,
         }
     }
@@ -510,12 +507,6 @@ impl Vm {
 
         // vcpu boot up require local memory. reserve 100 MiB memory
         let mem_size = (self.vm_config.mem_size_mib as u64) << 20;
-        let reserve_memory_bytes = self.vm_config.reserve_memory_bytes;
-        if reserve_memory_bytes > (mem_size >> 1) as u64 {
-            return Err(StartMicroVmError::ConfigureInvalid(String::from(
-                "invalid reserve_memory_bytes",
-            )));
-        }
 
         let mem_type = self.vm_config.mem_type.clone();
         let mut mem_file_path = String::from("");
@@ -543,12 +534,10 @@ impl Vm {
 
         info!(
             self.logger,
-            "VM: mem_type:{} mem_file_path:{}, mem_size:{}, reserve_memory_bytes:{}, \
-		numa_regions:{:?}",
+            "VM: mem_type:{} mem_file_path:{}, mem_size:{}, numa_regions:{:?}",
             mem_type,
             mem_file_path,
             mem_size,
-            reserve_memory_bytes,
             numa_regions,
         );
 
diff --git a/src/dragonball/src/vm/x86_64.rs b/src/dragonball/src/vm/x86_64.rs
index 3fcebdc20f..96ca0acb1f 100644
--- a/src/dragonball/src/vm/x86_64.rs
+++ b/src/dragonball/src/vm/x86_64.rs
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ fn configure_system<M: GuestMemory>(
     initrd: &Option<InitrdConfig>,
     boot_cpus: u8,
     max_cpus: u8,
-    rsv_mem_bytes: u64,
 ) -> super::Result<()> {
     const KERNEL_BOOT_FLAG_MAGIC: u16 = 0xaa55;
     const KERNEL_HDR_MAGIC: u32 = 0x5372_6448;
@@ -111,17 +110,6 @@ fn configure_system<M: GuestMemory>(
         }
     }
 
-    // reserve memory from microVM.
-    if rsv_mem_bytes > 0 {
-        add_e820_entry(
-            &mut params.0,
-            mem_end.raw_value().max(mmio_end.raw_value()) + 1,
-            rsv_mem_bytes,
-            bootparam::E820_RESERVED,
-        )
-        .map_err(Error::BootSystem)?;
-    }
-
     let zero_page_addr = GuestAddress(layout::ZERO_PAGE_START);
     guest_mem
         .checked_offset(zero_page_addr, mem::size_of::<bootparam::boot_params>())
@@ -237,7 +225,6 @@ impl Vm {
             &initrd,
             self.vm_config.vcpu_count,
             self.vm_config.max_vcpu_count,
-            self.vm_config.reserve_memory_bytes,
         )
         .map_err(StartMicroVmError::ConfigureSystem)
     }