diff --git a/SOURCES/1000-Add-AlmaLinux-detection.patch b/SOURCES/1000-Add-AlmaLinux-detection.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c794da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SOURCES/1000-Add-AlmaLinux-detection.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From 3b01a0e630c2e0ccc08b78544dcfd35e6a948b07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Andrew Lukoshko <andrew.lukoshko@gmail.com>
+Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 16:09:38 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] Add AlmaLinux detection
+
+---
+ m4/guestfs-appliance.m4 | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/m4/guestfs-appliance.m4 b/m4/guestfs-appliance.m4
+index b0a6ab4..66eef8a 100644
+--- a/m4/guestfs-appliance.m4
++++ b/m4/guestfs-appliance.m4
+@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ AC_ARG_WITH([distro],
+             ( . /etc/os-release && echo $ID | tr '@<:@:lower:@:>@' '@<:@:upper:@:>@' ) >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD
+             DISTRO="`. /etc/os-release && echo $ID | tr '@<:@:lower:@:>@' '@<:@:upper:@:>@'`"
+             AS_CASE([$DISTRO],
+-                    [FEDORA | RHEL | CENTOS],[DISTRO=REDHAT],
++                    [FEDORA | RHEL | CENTOS | ALMALINUX],[DISTRO=REDHAT],
+                     [OPENSUSE* | SLED | SLES],[DISTRO=SUSE],
+                     [ARCH],[DISTRO=ARCHLINUX],
+                     [OPENMANDRIVA],[DISTRO=OPENMANDRIVA])
+-- 
+2.27.0
+
diff --git a/SPECS/libguestfs.spec b/SPECS/libguestfs.spec
index 6cf69fb..2012d35 100644
--- a/SPECS/libguestfs.spec
+++ b/SPECS/libguestfs.spec
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Summary:       Access and modify virtual machine disk images
 Name:          libguestfs
 Epoch:         1
 Version:       1.44.0
-Release:       5%{?dist}
+Release:       5%{?dist}.alma
 License:       LGPLv2+
 
 ExclusiveArch: x86_64 %{power64} aarch64 s390x
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ Patch0017:     0017-launch-libvirt-place-our-virtio-net-pci-device-in-sl.patch
 Patch0018:     0018-lib-extract-NETWORK_ADDRESS-and-NETWORK_PREFIX-as-ma.patch
 Patch0019:     0019-launch-libvirt-add-virtio-net-via-the-standard-inter.patch
 
+# AlmaLinux detection patch
+Patch1000:     1000-Add-AlmaLinux-detection.patch
+
 # Replacement README file.
 Source4:       README-replacement.in
 
@@ -1182,6 +1185,9 @@ rm ocaml/html/.gitignore
 
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Apr 08 2022 Andrew Lukoshko <alukoshko@almalinux.org> - 1:1.44.0-5.alma
+- Fix build for AlmaLinux
+
 * Fri Dec 24 2021 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1:1.44.0-5
 - Fix libguestfs failure with qemu 6.2, libvirt 7.10
   resolves: rhbz#2035177