diff --git a/hw/arm/virt.c b/hw/arm/virt.c
index d725daefdf..c7fb5348ae 100644
--- a/hw/arm/virt.c
+++ b/hw/arm/virt.c
@@ -95,20 +95,7 @@
 
 #define PLATFORM_BUS_NUM_IRQS 64
 
-/* RAM limit in GB. Since VIRT_MEM starts at the 1GB mark, this means
- * RAM can go up to the 256GB mark, leaving 256GB of the physical
- * address space unallocated and free for future use between 256G and 512G.
- * If we need to provide more RAM to VMs in the future then we need to:
- *  * allocate a second bank of RAM starting at 2TB and working up
- *  * fix the DT and ACPI table generation code in QEMU to correctly
- *    report two split lumps of RAM to the guest
- *  * fix KVM in the host kernel to allow guests with >40 bit address spaces
- * (We don't want to fill all the way up to 512GB with RAM because
- * we might want it for non-RAM purposes later. Conversely it seems
- * reasonable to assume that anybody configuring a VM with a quarter
- * of a terabyte of RAM will be doing it on a host with more than a
- * terabyte of physical address space.)
- */
+/* Legacy RAM limit in GB (< version 4.0) */
 #define LEGACY_RAMLIMIT_GB 255
 #define LEGACY_RAMLIMIT_BYTES (LEGACY_RAMLIMIT_GB * GiB)
 
@@ -1516,12 +1503,6 @@ static void machvirt_init(MachineState *machine)
 
     vms->smp_cpus = smp_cpus;
 
-    if (machine->ram_size > vms->memmap[VIRT_MEM].size) {
-        error_report("mach-virt: cannot model more than %dGB RAM",
-                     LEGACY_RAMLIMIT_GB);
-        exit(1);
-    }
-
     if (vms->virt && kvm_enabled()) {
         error_report("mach-virt: KVM does not support providing "
                      "Virtualization extensions to the guest CPU");