diff --git a/tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh b/tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh
index 7149545ee..fe95d7997 100755
--- a/tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh
+++ b/tests/integration/kubernetes/gha-run.sh
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ function deploy_kata() {
 
 	ANNOTATIONS="default_vcpus"
 	if [[ "${KATA_HOST_OS}" = "cbl-mariner" ]]; then
-		ANNOTATIONS="image kernel default_vcpus"
+		ANNOTATIONS="image kernel default_vcpus disable_image_nvdimm"
 	fi
 	if [[ "${KATA_HYPERVISOR}" = "qemu" ]]; then
 		ANNOTATIONS="image initrd kernel default_vcpus"
diff --git a/tests/integration/kubernetes/setup.sh b/tests/integration/kubernetes/setup.sh
index 188864cbb..96a9a3061 100644
--- a/tests/integration/kubernetes/setup.sh
+++ b/tests/integration/kubernetes/setup.sh
@@ -106,9 +106,13 @@ 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_disable_image_nvdimm="io.katacontainers.config.hypervisor.disable_image_nvdimm"
+		local mariner_disable_image_nvdimm=true
+
 		for K8S_TEST_YAML in runtimeclass_workloads_work/*.yaml
 		do
 			add_annotations_to_yaml "${K8S_TEST_YAML}" "${mariner_annotation_image}" "${mariner_image_path}"
+			add_annotations_to_yaml "${K8S_TEST_YAML}" "${mariner_annotation_disable_image_nvdimm}" "${mariner_disable_image_nvdimm}"
 		done
 	fi
 }