diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index 0379f92324c..06bf4886c13 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -50,8 +50,11 @@ else # sorry Windows folks, I can't help you
   $vm_cpus = 2
 end
 
-# Give VM 512MB of RAM
-$vm_mem = 512
+# Give VM 1024MB of RAM
+# In Fedora VM, tmpfs device is mapped to /tmp.  tmpfs is given 50% of RAM allocation.
+# When doing Salt provisioning, we copy approximately 200MB of content in /tmp before anything else happens.
+# This causes problems if anything else was in /tmp or the other directories that are bound to tmpfs device (i.e /run, etc.)
+$vm_mem = 1024
 
 Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
   def customize_vm(config)