diff --git a/Vagrantfile.example b/Vagrantfile.example
index 73fcbf38c4..061c20f277 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile.example
+++ b/Vagrantfile.example
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
 
 Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
   config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
-    v.memory = 768
+    v.memory = 4096
     v.cpus = 1
     v.customize ["setextradata", :id, "VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/vagrant", "1"]
   end
diff --git a/vagrant_scripts/install_node.sh b/vagrant_scripts/install_node.sh
index 8de976aa62..a420e7bdf1 100755
--- a/vagrant_scripts/install_node.sh
+++ b/vagrant_scripts/install_node.sh
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ nvm use
 nvm alias default current
 
 echo Update npm...
-npm install -g npm@2
+npm install -g npm@3
 
 echo Installing global modules...
 npm install -g gulp bower grunt-cli mocha