diff --git a/arm/kvm.c b/arm/kvm.c
index 008b7fe..d0d64ff 100644
--- a/arm/kvm.c
+++ b/arm/kvm.c
@@ -61,11 +61,13 @@ void kvm__arch_set_cmdline(char *cmdline, bool video)
 void kvm__arch_init(struct kvm *kvm, const char *hugetlbfs_path, u64 ram_size)
 {
 	/*
-	 * Allocate guest memory. We must align out buffer to 64K to
+	 * Allocate guest memory. We must align our buffer to 64K to
 	 * correlate with the maximum guest page size for virtio-mmio.
+	 * If using THP, then our minimal alignment becomes 2M.
+	 * 2M trumps 64K, so let's go with that.
 	 */
 	kvm->ram_size = min(ram_size, (u64)ARM_MAX_MEMORY(kvm));
-	kvm->arch.ram_alloc_size = kvm->ram_size + SZ_64K;
+	kvm->arch.ram_alloc_size = kvm->ram_size + SZ_2M;
 	kvm->arch.ram_alloc_start = mmap_anon_or_hugetlbfs(kvm, hugetlbfs_path,
 						kvm->arch.ram_alloc_size);
 
@@ -74,7 +76,7 @@ void kvm__arch_init(struct kvm *kvm, const char *hugetlbfs_path, u64 ram_size)
 		    kvm->arch.ram_alloc_size, errno);
 
 	kvm->ram_start = (void *)ALIGN((unsigned long)kvm->arch.ram_alloc_start,
-					SZ_64K);
+					SZ_2M);
 
 	madvise(kvm->arch.ram_alloc_start, kvm->arch.ram_alloc_size,
 		MADV_MERGEABLE);