diff --git a/tests/replace-add-needed.sh b/tests/replace-add-needed.sh
index 701cb953..1282f4f8 100755
--- a/tests/replace-add-needed.sh
+++ b/tests/replace-add-needed.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,15 @@ cp libbar.so "${SCRATCH}"/
 
 cd "${SCRATCH}"
 
-libcldd=$(ldd ./simple | awk '/ => / { print $3 }' | grep -E "(libc(-[0-9.]*)*.so|ld-musl)")
+# QEMU & ldd are not playing well together in certain cases
+if ldd ./simple >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    libcldd=$(ldd ./simple | awk '/ => / { print $3 }' | grep -E "(libc(-[0-9.]*)*.so|ld-musl)")
+elif [ -f /lib64/libc.so.6 ]; then
+    libcldd=/lib64/libc.so.6
+else
+    echo "ldd ./simple failed"
+    exit 1
+fi
 
 # We have to set the soname on these libraries
 ${PATCHELF} --set-soname libbar.so ./libbar.so
diff --git a/tests/set-interpreter-long.sh b/tests/set-interpreter-long.sh
index f1e0d2f9..bb692aeb 100755
--- a/tests/set-interpreter-long.sh
+++ b/tests/set-interpreter-long.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ SCRATCH=scratch/$(basename "$0" .sh)
 oldInterpreter=$(../src/patchelf --print-interpreter ./simple)
 echo "current interpreter is $oldInterpreter"
 
-if test "$(uname)" = Linux; then
+# QEMU & ldd/ld.so are not playing well together in certain cases
+if test "$(uname)" = Linux && ldd ./simple >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     echo "running with explicit interpreter..."
     "$oldInterpreter" ./simple
 fi
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ echo "running with new interpreter..."
 ln -s "$oldInterpreter" "$newInterpreter"
 "${SCRATCH}"/simple
 
-if test "$(uname)" = Linux; then
+if test "$(uname)" = Linux && ldd ./simple >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     echo "running with explicit interpreter..."
     "$oldInterpreter" "${SCRATCH}/simple"
 fi