diff --git a/test/java/lang/invoke/CustomizedLambdaFormTest.java b/test/java/lang/invoke/CustomizedLambdaFormTest.java
index 3e2467363be868e5b138165943ba64073d26dde0..a0ecdcd28d12d830951d30363ab081c14c21bcc8 100644
--- a/test/java/lang/invoke/CustomizedLambdaFormTest.java
+++ b/test/java/lang/invoke/CustomizedLambdaFormTest.java
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ package java.lang.invoke;
 /* @test
  * @summary Assertion in LambdaFormEditor.bindArgumentType is too strong
  *
- * @run main/bootclasspath -esa java.lang.invoke.CustomizedLambdaFormTest
+ * @run main/othervm/bootclasspath -esa java.lang.invoke.CustomizedLambdaFormTest
  */
 public class CustomizedLambdaFormTest {
 
diff --git a/test/java/lang/invoke/VarargsArrayTest.java b/test/java/lang/invoke/VarargsArrayTest.java
index a247fa5b43414e7bedc4bd73fbc2f825baa4c178..468eb42c689f664fe0b25e01d2dec13f1c72aa9f 100644
--- a/test/java/lang/invoke/VarargsArrayTest.java
+++ b/test/java/lang/invoke/VarargsArrayTest.java
@@ -32,13 +32,12 @@ import com.oracle.testlibrary.jsr292.CodeCacheOverflowProcessor;
  * @summary unit tests for varargs array methods: MethodHandleInfo.varargsArray(int),
  *          MethodHandleInfo.varargsArray(Class,int) & MethodHandleInfo.varargsList(int)
  * @library /lib/testlibrary /lib/testlibrary/jsr292
- * @run main/bootclasspath java.lang.invoke.VarargsArrayTest
- * @run main/bootclasspath -DVarargsArrayTest.MAX_ARITY=255 -DVarargsArrayTest.START_ARITY=250
- *                         java.lang.invoke.VarargsArrayTest
+ * @run main/othervm/bootclasspath java.lang.invoke.VarargsArrayTest
+ * @run main/othervm/bootclasspath -DVarargsArrayTest.MAX_ARITY=255 -DVarargsArrayTest.START_ARITY=250 java.lang.invoke.VarargsArrayTest
  */
 
 /* This might take a while and burn lots of metadata:
- * @run main/bootclasspath -DVarargsArrayTest.MAX_ARITY=255 -DVarargsArrayTest.EXHAUSTIVE=true java.lang.invoke.VarargsArrayTest
+ * @run main/othervm/bootclasspath -DVarargsArrayTest.MAX_ARITY=255 -DVarargsArrayTest.EXHAUSTIVE=true java.lang.invoke.VarargsArrayTest
  */
 public class VarargsArrayTest {
     private static final Class<?> CLASS = VarargsArrayTest.class;