diff --git a/client/tests/kvm/kvm_preprocessing.py b/client/tests/kvm/kvm_preprocessing.py
index 4a6e0f8..41455cf 100644
--- a/client/tests/kvm/kvm_preprocessing.py
+++ b/client/tests/kvm/kvm_preprocessing.py
@@ -254,6 +254,10 @@ def preprocess(test, params, env):
     logging.debug("KVM userspace version: %s" % kvm_userspace_version)
     test.write_test_keyval({"kvm_userspace_version": kvm_userspace_version})
 
+    if params.get("setup_hugepages") == "yes":
+        h = kvm_utils.HugePageConfig(params)
+        h.setup()
+
     # Execute any pre_commands
     if params.get("pre_command"):
         process_command(test, params, env, params.get("pre_command"),
@@ -350,6 +354,10 @@ def postprocess(test, params, env):
         env["tcpdump"].close()
         del env["tcpdump"]
 
+    if params.get("setup_hugepages") == "yes":
+        h = kvm_utils.HugePageConfig(params)
+        h.cleanup()
+
     # Execute any post_commands
     if params.get("post_command"):
         process_command(test, params, env, params.get("post_command"),
diff --git a/client/tests/kvm/kvm_utils.py b/client/tests/kvm/kvm_utils.py
index 78c9f25..632badb 100644
--- a/client/tests/kvm/kvm_utils.py
+++ b/client/tests/kvm/kvm_utils.py
@@ -1265,6 +1265,107 @@ class KvmLoggingConfig(logging_config.LoggingConfig):
                                                         verbose=verbose)
 
 
+class HugePageConfig:
+    def __init__(self, params):
+        """
+        Gets environment variable values and calculates the target number
+        of huge memory pages.
+
+        @param params: Dict like object containing parameters for the test.
+        """
+        self.vms = len(params.objects("vms"))
+        self.mem = int(params.get("mem"))
+        self.max_vms = int(params.get("max_vms", 0))
+        self.hugepage_path = '/mnt/kvm_hugepage'
+        self.hugepage_size = self.get_hugepage_size()
+        self.target_hugepages = self.get_target_hugepages()
+        self.kernel_hp_file = '/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages'
+
+
+    def get_hugepage_size(self):
+        """
+        Get the current system setting for huge memory page size.
+        """
+        meminfo = open('/proc/meminfo', 'r').readlines()
+        huge_line_list = [h for h in meminfo if h.startswith("Hugepagesize")]
+        try:
+            return int(huge_line_list[0].split()[1])
+        except ValueError, e:
+            raise ValueError("Could not get huge page size setting from "
+                             "/proc/meminfo: %s" % e)
+
+
+    def get_target_hugepages(self):
+        """
+        Calculate the target number of hugepages for testing purposes.
+        """
+        if self.vms < self.max_vms:
+            self.vms = self.max_vms
+        # memory of all VMs plus qemu overhead of 64MB per guest
+        vmsm = (self.vms * self.mem) + (self.vms * 64)
+        return int(vmsm * 1024 / self.hugepage_size)
+
+
+    @error.context_aware
+    def set_hugepages(self):
+        """
+        Sets the hugepage limit to the target hugepage value calculated.
+        """
+        error.context("setting hugepages limit to %s" % self.target_hugepages)
+        hugepage_cfg = open(self.kernel_hp_file, "r+")
+        hp = hugepage_cfg.readline()
+        while int(hp) < self.target_hugepages:
+            loop_hp = hp
+            hugepage_cfg.write(str(self.target_hugepages))
+            hugepage_cfg.flush()
+            hugepage_cfg.seek(0)
+            hp = int(hugepage_cfg.readline())
+            if loop_hp == hp:
+                raise ValueError("Cannot set the kernel hugepage setting "
+                                 "to the target value of %d hugepages." %
+                                 self.target_hugepages)
+        hugepage_cfg.close()
+        logging.debug("Successfuly set %s large memory pages on host ",
+                      self.target_hugepages)
+
+
+    @error.context_aware
+    def mount_hugepage_fs(self):
+        """
+        Verify if there's a hugetlbfs mount set. If there's none, will set up
+        a hugetlbfs mount using the class attribute that defines the mount
+        point.
+        """
+        error.context("mounting hugepages path")
+        if not os.path.ismount(self.hugepage_path):
+            if not os.path.isdir(self.hugepage_path):
+                os.makedirs(self.hugepage_path)
+            cmd = "mount -t hugetlbfs none %s" % self.hugepage_path
+            utils.system(cmd)
+
+
+    def setup(self):
+        logging.debug("Number of VMs this test will use: %d", self.vms)
+        logging.debug("Amount of memory used by each vm: %s", self.mem)
+        logging.debug("System setting for large memory page size: %s",
+                      self.hugepage_size)
+        logging.debug("Number of large memory pages needed for this test: %s",
+                      self.target_hugepages)
+        self.set_hugepages()
+        self.mount_hugepage_fs()
+
+
+    @error.context_aware
+    def cleanup(self):
+        error.context("trying to dealocate hugepage memory")
+        try:
+            utils.system("umount %s" % self.hugepage_path)
+        except error.CmdError:
+            return
+        utils.system("echo 0 > %s" % self.kernel_hp_file)
+        logging.debug("Hugepage memory successfuly dealocated")
+
+
 class PciAssignable(object):
     """
     Request PCI assignable devices on host. It will check whether to request
diff --git a/client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample b/client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample
index 3299af7..360cf80 100644
--- a/client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample
+++ b/client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample
@@ -2375,8 +2375,7 @@ variants:
 variants:
     - @smallpages:
     - hugepages:
-        pre_command += " scripts/hugepage.py /mnt/kvm_hugepage;"
-        post_command += " umount /mnt/kvm_hugepage && echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages;"
+        setup_hugepages = yes
         extra_params += " -mem-path /mnt/kvm_hugepage"
 
 
