diff --git a/test/vhost/migration/migration-tc1.job b/test/vhost/migration/migration-tc1.job
index 7e12b689e..1059d111c 100644
--- a/test/vhost/migration/migration-tc1.job
+++ b/test/vhost/migration/migration-tc1.job
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 [global]
-blocksize_range=4k-512k
-#bs=512k
-iodepth=128
+bs=4k
+iodepth=8
 ioengine=libaio
 filename=
 group_reporting
diff --git a/test/vhost/migration/migration-tc1.sh b/test/vhost/migration/migration-tc1.sh
index 2d84c4df7..518fd8d8e 100644
--- a/test/vhost/migration/migration-tc1.sh
+++ b/test/vhost/migration/migration-tc1.sh
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ function migration_tc1() {
 	# Use 2 VMs:
 	# incoming VM - the one we want to migrate
 	# targe VM - the one which will accept migration
+	# VM uses 1 GiB memory, here we use light IO workload to keep number of dirty pages
+	# is in low rate of VM's memory, see https://github.com/spdk/spdk/issues/2805.
 	local job_file="$testdir/migration-tc1.job"
 	local log_file
 	log_file="/root/$(basename ${job_file%%.*}).log"
diff --git a/test/vhost/migration/migration-tc2.job b/test/vhost/migration/migration-tc2.job
index 86fdf10d4..71e4fdcd7 100644
--- a/test/vhost/migration/migration-tc2.job
+++ b/test/vhost/migration/migration-tc2.job
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [global]
-blocksize_range=4k-512k
-iodepth=128
+blocksize_range=4k-128k
+iodepth=16
 ioengine=libaio
 filename=
 group_reporting
diff --git a/test/vhost/migration/migration-tc2.sh b/test/vhost/migration/migration-tc2.sh
index aae24946e..f9954a576 100644
--- a/test/vhost/migration/migration-tc2.sh
+++ b/test/vhost/migration/migration-tc2.sh
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ function migration_tc2() {
 	# Use 2 VMs:
 	# incoming VM - the one we want to migrate
 	# targe VM - the one which will accept migration
+	# VM uses 1 GiB memory, here we use light IO workload to keep number of dirty pages
+	# is in low rate of VM's memory, see https://github.com/spdk/spdk/issues/2805.
 	local job_file="$testdir/migration-tc2.job"
 	local log_file
 	log_file="/root/$(basename ${job_file%%.*}).log"
diff --git a/test/vhost/migration/migration.sh b/test/vhost/migration/migration.sh
index 0af631aab..6417a790f 100755
--- a/test/vhost/migration/migration.sh
+++ b/test/vhost/migration/migration.sh
@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ function vm_migrate() {
 	timing_enter vm_migrate
 	notice "Migrating VM $1 to VM "$(basename $target_vm_dir)
 	echo -e \
-		"migrate_set_speed 1g\n" \
 		"migrate tcp:$target_ip:$target_vm_migration_port\n" \
 		"info migrate\n" \
 		"quit" | vm_monitor_send $1 "$from_vm_dir/migration_result"