diff --git a/docs/backend/SYCL.md b/docs/backend/SYCL.md
index 3ea94d9d788a..93b983abcee8 100644
--- a/docs/backend/SYCL.md
+++ b/docs/backend/SYCL.md
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ use 1 SYCL GPUs: [0] with Max compute units:512
 | GGML_SYCL_DISABLE_GRAPH | 0 or 1 (default) | Disable running computations through SYCL Graphs feature. Disabled by default because SYCL Graph is still on development, no better performance. |
 | GGML_SYCL_ENABLE_LEVEL_ZERO | 1 (default) or 0 | Use Level Zero API for device memory allocation instead of SYCL. Reduces system RAM usage on Intel dGPUs by avoiding DMA-buf/TTM host memory staging. Requires GGML_SYCL_SUPPORT_LEVEL_ZERO=ON at build time. |
 | GGML_SYCL_DISABLE_DNN | 0 (default) or 1 | Disable running computations through oneDNN and always use oneMKL. |
-| GGML_SYCL_ENABLE_VMM | 0 or 1 (default) | Enable the virtual-memory device pool. |
+| GGML_SYCL_ENABLE_VMM | 0 (default) or 1 | Enable the virtual-memory device pool. |
 | ZES_ENABLE_SYSMAN | 0 (default) or 1 | Support to get free memory of GPU by sycl::aspect::ext_intel_free_memory.<br>Recommended to use when --split-mode = layer |
 | UR_L0_ENABLE_RELAXED_ALLOCATION_LIMITS | 0 (default) or 1 | Allow SYCL/Unified Runtime Level Zero device allocations larger than 4 GiB. llama.cpp's direct Level Zero allocation path requests the relaxed maximum-size limit itself when GGML_SYCL_ENABLE_LEVEL_ZERO=1. |
 
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/ggml-sycl.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/ggml-sycl.cpp
index fb8665a02c32..d62da8a475d1 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/ggml-sycl.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/ggml-sycl.cpp
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ int g_ggml_sycl_debug = 0;
 int g_ggml_sycl_disable_optimize = 0;
 int g_ggml_sycl_disable_graph = 0;
 int g_ggml_sycl_disable_dnn = 0;
-int g_ggml_sycl_enable_vmm = 1;
+int g_ggml_sycl_enable_vmm = 0;
 int g_ggml_sycl_prioritize_dmmv = 0;
 int g_ggml_sycl_use_async_mem_op = 0;
 int g_ggml_sycl_use_async_mem_op_requested = 1;
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ static void ggml_check_sycl() try {
         g_ggml_sycl_disable_optimize = ggml_sycl_get_env("GGML_SYCL_DISABLE_OPT", 0);
         g_ggml_sycl_disable_graph = ggml_sycl_get_env("GGML_SYCL_DISABLE_GRAPH", 1);
         g_ggml_sycl_disable_dnn = ggml_sycl_get_env("GGML_SYCL_DISABLE_DNN", 0);
-        g_ggml_sycl_enable_vmm = ggml_sycl_get_env("GGML_SYCL_ENABLE_VMM", 1);
+        g_ggml_sycl_enable_vmm = ggml_sycl_get_env("GGML_SYCL_ENABLE_VMM", 0);
         g_ggml_sycl_prioritize_dmmv = ggml_sycl_get_env("GGML_SYCL_PRIORITIZE_DMMV", 0);
 
 #ifdef SYCL_FLASH_ATTN