diff --git a/nova/compute/api.py b/nova/compute/api.py
index 87e76a7a69ac..588a8124bc85 100644
--- a/nova/compute/api.py
+++ b/nova/compute/api.py
@@ -2034,7 +2034,8 @@ class API(base.Base):
         else:
             flavor = flavor or instance.flavor
             instance_vcpus = flavor.vcpus
-            instance_memory_mb = flavor.memory_mb
+            vram_mb = int(flavor.get('extra_specs', {}).get(VIDEO_RAM, 0))
+            instance_memory_mb = flavor.memory_mb + vram_mb
 
         quotas = objects.Quotas(context=context)
         quotas.reserve(project_id=project_id,
diff --git a/nova/tests/unit/compute/test_compute_api.py b/nova/tests/unit/compute/test_compute_api.py
index 1d432996c196..227894bd290a 100644
--- a/nova/tests/unit/compute/test_compute_api.py
+++ b/nova/tests/unit/compute/test_compute_api.py
@@ -961,9 +961,11 @@ class _ComputeAPIUnitTestMixIn(object):
         inst = self._create_instance_obj()
         inst.update(attrs)
         inst._context = self.context
+        vram_mb = int(inst.flavor.get('extra_specs',
+                                      {}).get(compute_api.VIDEO_RAM, 0))
         deltas = {'instances': -1,
                   'cores': -inst.flavor.vcpus,
-                  'ram': -inst.flavor.memory_mb}
+                  'ram': -(inst.flavor.memory_mb + vram_mb)}
         delete_time = datetime.datetime(1955, 11, 5, 9, 30,
                                         tzinfo=iso8601.iso8601.Utc())
         self.useFixture(utils_fixture.TimeFixture(delete_time))
@@ -1105,6 +1107,12 @@ class _ComputeAPIUnitTestMixIn(object):
     def test_delete_in_resized(self):
         self._test_delete('delete', vm_state=vm_states.RESIZED)
 
+    def test_delete_with_vram(self):
+        flavor = objects.Flavor(vcpus=1, memory_mb=512,
+            extra_specs={compute_api.VIDEO_RAM: "64"})
+        self._test_delete('delete',
+                          flavor=flavor)
+
     def test_delete_shelved(self):
         fake_sys_meta = {'shelved_image_id': SHELVED_IMAGE}
         self._test_delete('delete',