diff --git a/lib/nova_plugins/hypervisor-fake b/lib/nova_plugins/hypervisor-fake
index 49c8dee83a..87ee49fa4b 100644
--- a/lib/nova_plugins/hypervisor-fake
+++ b/lib/nova_plugins/hypervisor-fake
@@ -38,18 +38,7 @@ function cleanup_nova_hypervisor {
 function configure_nova_hypervisor {
     iniset $NOVA_CONF DEFAULT compute_driver "fake.FakeDriver"
     # Disable arbitrary limits
-    iniset $NOVA_CONF DEFAULT quota_instances -1
-    iniset $NOVA_CONF DEFAULT quota_cores -1
-    iniset $NOVA_CONF DEFAULT quota_ram -1
-    iniset $NOVA_CONF DEFAULT quota_floating_ips -1
-    iniset $NOVA_CONF DEFAULT quota_fixed_ips -1
-    iniset $NOVA_CONF DEFAULT quota_metadata_items -1
-    iniset $NOVA_CONF DEFAULT quota_injected_files -1
-    iniset $NOVA_CONF DEFAULT quota_injected_file_path_length -1
-    iniset $NOVA_CONF DEFAULT quota_security_groups -1
-    iniset $NOVA_CONF DEFAULT quota_security_group_rules -1
-    iniset $NOVA_CONF DEFAULT quota_key_pairs -1
-    iniset $NOVA_CONF filter_scheduler enabled_filters "RetryFilter,AvailabilityZoneFilter,ComputeFilter,ComputeCapabilitiesFilter,ImagePropertiesFilter,CoreFilter,RamFilter,DiskFilter"
+    iniset $NOVA_CONF quota driver nova.quota.NoopQuotaDriver
 }
 
 # install_nova_hypervisor() - Install external components
diff --git a/stackrc b/stackrc
index 3c4e4370e8..6c4d7d6848 100644
--- a/stackrc
+++ b/stackrc
@@ -800,12 +800,7 @@ SERVICE_PROTOCOL=${SERVICE_PROTOCOL:-http}
 # the memory used where there are a large number of CPUs present
 # (the default number of workers for many services is the number of CPUs)
 # Also sets the minimum number of workers to 2.
-if [[ "$VIRT_DRIVER" = 'fake' ]]; then
-    # we need more workers for the large ops job
-    API_WORKERS=${API_WORKERS:=$(( ($(nproc)/2)<2 ? 2 : ($(nproc)/2) ))}
-else
-    API_WORKERS=${API_WORKERS:=$(( ($(nproc)/4)<2 ? 2 : ($(nproc)/4) ))}
-fi
+API_WORKERS=${API_WORKERS:=$(( ($(nproc)/4)<2 ? 2 : ($(nproc)/4) ))}
 
 # Service startup timeout
 SERVICE_TIMEOUT=${SERVICE_TIMEOUT:-60}