Installation of Alpha Fedora under qemu-system-alpha (done on x86_64 Linux Mint 19.2) we will need a working qemu environment for this of course qemu-system-alpha first download installation ISOs from here http://yakov.dls.net/fedora/3/alpha/ I have used my previous formatted disk from Gentoo Alpha @ https://45.76.81.249/AXP/Gentoo/disk.dd Save the disk.dd as fedora.img - Before running the emulation make sure we copy the initrd and kernel from the CD1.ISO and place it in the simulator root dir - I have the ISOs in the simulator directory as well to make the CD swap easier This is how it looks like root@panasonic:/home/user/KVM/Alpha/RHEL# ls -al total 6931012 drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Mar 29 16:06 . drwxr-xr-x 9 user user 4096 Mar 28 12:47 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 650164224 Mar 28 12:27 cd1.iso -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 664260608 Mar 29 00:09 cd2.iso -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 661008384 Mar 29 00:09 cd3.iso -rw-rw-r-- 1 user user 555798528 Mar 29 00:09 cd4.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10737418240 Mar 29 16:13 fedora.img -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 1196328 Mar 29 03:15 initrd-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5.6axp.img -r--r--r-- 1 user user 6009009 Mar 28 23:36 initrd.img -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 416 Mar 29 03:22 install.sh dr-xr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Feb 28 2007 iso -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12775672 Mar 28 23:27 qemu-system-alpha -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 482 Mar 29 16:06 run.sh -r--r--r-- 1 root root 6799560 Mar 28 23:28 vmlinux -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 6799560 Mar 29 03:15 vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5.6axp So mount the cd1.iso as a loopback device > mount -o loop cd1.iso iso > cd iso > cd kernel > cp vmlinux.gz ../../ > cd .. > cd images > cp initrd.img ../../ > cd ../.. > umount iso > gunzip vmlinux.gz Now we can run the install.sh script to initiate the setup > ./install.sh When the installer asks for 2nd CD do the following connect to qemu monitor from another shell > telnet localhost 5555 > info block > change ide0-cd0 ./cd2.iso ( and any other ISO the same way) After setup is finished we need to extract the installed initrd-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5.6axp.img from the fedora.img (the kernel can be the same ) and use the run.sh script to load the installed system in qemu. I have used my other qemu system to access the fedora.img disk image, or you can mount it locally on Linux > ./run.sh For network I have used my standard scripts as described here https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/ppc-systems-under-qemu-system-ppc-emulation-on-aarch64-part-1/ https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/mojave-on-virtualbox-6-1-linux/ For the lazy I have uploaded the fedora.img here to get going Credentials are as follows : root:p4ssw0rd user:p4ssw0rd Network is not configured but you can issue afterwards Inside Fedora (change accordingly to your setup) # ifconfig eth0 10.0.2.12 up # route add default gw 10.0.2.2