diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage1-systemd.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage1-systemd.spec
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cb602b5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage1-systemd.spec
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+subarch: alpha
+target: stage1
+version_stamp: systemd-@TIMESTAMP@
+rel_type: default
+profile: default/linux/alpha/17.0/systemd
+snapshot: @TIMESTAMP@
+source_subpath: default/stage3-alpha-systemd-latest
+update_seed: yes
+update_seed_command: -uDN @world
+portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages-qemu
+interpreter: /usr/bin/qemu-alpha
+compression_mode: pixz
diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage3-systemd.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage3-systemd.spec
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8e4e2108
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage3-systemd.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+subarch: alpha
+target: stage3
+version_stamp: systemd-@TIMESTAMP@
+rel_type: default
+profile: default/linux/alpha/17.0/systemd
+snapshot: @TIMESTAMP@
+source_subpath: default/stage1-alpha-systemd-@TIMESTAMP@
+portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages-qemu
+interpreter: /usr/bin/qemu-alpha
+compression_mode: pixz