diff --git a/src/cmdlib.sh b/src/cmdlib.sh
index dc38c58488..5e35a1b994 100755
--- a/src/cmdlib.sh
+++ b/src/cmdlib.sh
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ runvm_with_cache_snapshot() {
     local snapshot=$1; shift
     # "cache2" has an explicit label so we can find it in qemu easily
     if [ ! -f "${workdir}"/cache/cache2.qcow2 ]; then
-        qemu-img create -f qcow2 cache2.qcow2.tmp 10G
+        qemu-img create -f qcow2 cache2.qcow2.tmp 16G
         (
          # shellcheck source=src/libguestfish.sh
          source /usr/lib/coreos-assembler/libguestfish.sh