diff --git a/tests/cli-test-xml/compare/virt-install-default-f27.xml b/tests/cli-test-xml/compare/virt-install-default-f27.xml
index 81623d069..b4df2bd2b 100644
--- a/tests/cli-test-xml/compare/virt-install-default-f27.xml
+++ b/tests/cli-test-xml/compare/virt-install-default-f27.xml
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
       <libosinfo:os id="http://fedoraproject.org/fedora/27"/>
     </libosinfo:libosinfo>
   </metadata>
-  <memory>65536</memory>
-  <currentMemory>65536</currentMemory>
+  <memory>1048576</memory>
+  <currentMemory>1048576</currentMemory>
   <vcpu>1</vcpu>
   <os>
     <type arch="x86_64">exe</type>
diff --git a/tests/cli-test-xml/compare/virt-install-default.xml b/tests/cli-test-xml/compare/virt-install-default.xml
index d552b021e..e88ccbc38 100644
--- a/tests/cli-test-xml/compare/virt-install-default.xml
+++ b/tests/cli-test-xml/compare/virt-install-default.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 <domain type="lxc">
   <name>foolxc</name>
   <uuid>00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444</uuid>
-  <memory>65536</memory>
-  <currentMemory>65536</currentMemory>
+  <memory>1048576</memory>
+  <currentMemory>1048576</currentMemory>
   <vcpu>1</vcpu>
   <os>
     <type arch="x86_64">exe</type>
diff --git a/tests/cli-test-xml/compare/virt-install-manual-init.xml b/tests/cli-test-xml/compare/virt-install-manual-init.xml
index ce738c066..cff1d3d93 100644
--- a/tests/cli-test-xml/compare/virt-install-manual-init.xml
+++ b/tests/cli-test-xml/compare/virt-install-manual-init.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 <domain type="lxc">
   <name>foolxc</name>
   <uuid>00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444</uuid>
-  <memory>65536</memory>
-  <currentMemory>65536</currentMemory>
+  <memory>1048576</memory>
+  <currentMemory>1048576</currentMemory>
   <vcpu>1</vcpu>
   <os>
     <type arch="x86_64">exe</type>
diff --git a/tests/clitest.py b/tests/clitest.py
index 530ae275c..e89994c90 100644
--- a/tests/clitest.py
+++ b/tests/clitest.py
@@ -391,7 +391,9 @@ class App(object):
             args += " --connect %s" % uri
 
         if self.appname in ["virt-install"]:
-            if "--ram " not in cli:
+            # Excluding 'lxc' is a hack. We need to remove this, but it
+            # will take some work
+            if "--ram " not in cli and "lxc" not in cli:
                 args += " --ram 64"
 
         if iscompare:
diff --git a/virt-install b/virt-install
index 0056a218d..9d574fc83 100755
--- a/virt-install
+++ b/virt-install
@@ -455,10 +455,13 @@ def set_cli_defaults(options, guest):
 
     if guest.os.is_container():
         if not memory_specified(guest):
+            mbram = 1024
             # LXC doesn't even do anything with memory settings, but libvirt
             # XML requires it anyways. Fill in 64 MiB
-            log.debug("Setting container default --memory 64")
-            guest.currentMemory = 64 // 1024
+            cli.print_stdout(
+                _("Using container default --memory {megabytes}").format(
+                megabytes=mbram))
+            guest.currentMemory = mbram * 1024
         return
 
     if (options.unattended and