diff --git a/lib/setupmanagers/qemuhck/devices/virtio-mem-pci.json b/lib/setupmanagers/qemuhck/devices/virtio-mem-pci.json
index dec2c1c3..3f9855cb 100644
--- a/lib/setupmanagers/qemuhck/devices/virtio-mem-pci.json
+++ b/lib/setupmanagers/qemuhck/devices/virtio-mem-pci.json
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
   "pluggable_memory_gb": 2,
   "command_line": [
     "-object memory-backend-ram,id=mem_backend,size=@pluggable_memory@",
-    "-device virtio-mem-pci@device_extra_param@,memdev=mem_backend,requested-size=1G,bus=@bus_name@.0"
+    "-device virtio-mem-pci@device_extra_param@,id=mem_@run_id@_@client_id@,memdev=mem_backend,requested-size=1G,bus=@bus_name@.0"
   ]
 }