diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index d27d42b920..4ecb58c90f 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -6985,6 +6985,12 @@ virDomainParseMemoryLimit(const char *xpath,
 unsigned long long
 virDomainDefGetMemoryInitial(virDomainDefPtr def)
 {
+    unsigned long long ret;
+
+    /* return NUMA memory size total in case numa is enabled */
+    if ((ret = virDomainNumaGetMemorySize(def->numa)) > 0)
+        return ret;
+
     return def->mem.max_balloon;
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-numatune-memnode.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-numatune-memnode.args
index 513d657646..5dd7fcd2ef 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-numatune-memnode.args
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-numatune-memnode.args
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 LC_ALL=C PATH=/bin HOME=/home/test USER=test LOGNAME=test QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none \
-/usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc -m 24104 -smp 32 \
+/usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc -m 24105 -smp 32 \
 -object memory-backend-ram,id=ram-node0,size=20971520,host-nodes=3,\
 policy=preferred \
 -numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0,memdev=ram-node0 \