diff --git a/.github/workflows/scripts/qemu-3-deps-vm.sh b/.github/workflows/scripts/qemu-3-deps-vm.sh
index b74303791..b10bd4da3 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/scripts/qemu-3-deps-vm.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/scripts/qemu-3-deps-vm.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 # 3) install dependencies for compiling and loading
 #
 # $1: OS name (like 'fedora41')
+# $2: (optional) Experimental Fedora kernel version, like "6.14" to
+#     install instead of Fedora defaults.
 ######################################################################
 
 set -eu
@@ -95,6 +97,25 @@ function tumbleweed() {
   echo "##[endgroup]"
 }
 
+# $1: Kernel version to install (like '6.14rc7')
+function install_fedora_experimental_kernel {
+
+  our_version="$1"
+  sudo dnf -y copr enable @kernel-vanilla/stable
+  sudo dnf -y copr enable @kernel-vanilla/mainline
+  all="$(sudo dnf list --showduplicates kernel-*)"
+  echo "Available versions:"
+  echo "$all"
+
+  # You can have a bunch of minor variants of the version we want '6.14'.
+  # Pick the newest variant (sorted by version number).
+  specific_version=$(echo "$all" | grep $our_version | awk '{print $2}' | sort -V | tail -n 1)
+  list="$(echo "$all" | grep $specific_version | grep -Ev 'kernel-rt|kernel-selftests|kernel-debuginfo' | sed 's/.x86_64//g' | awk '{print $1"-"$2}')"
+  sudo dnf install -y $list
+  sudo dnf -y copr disable @kernel-vanilla/stable
+  sudo dnf -y copr disable @kernel-vanilla/mainline
+}
+
 # Install dependencies
 case "$1" in
   almalinux8)
@@ -133,6 +154,11 @@ case "$1" in
 
     # Fedora 42+ moves /usr/bin/script from 'util-linux' to 'util-linux-script'
     sudo dnf install -y util-linux-script || true
+
+    # Optional: Install an experimental kernel ($2 = kernel version)
+    if [ -n "${2:-}" ] ; then
+      install_fedora_experimental_kernel "$2"
+    fi
     ;;
   freebsd*)
     freebsd
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scripts/qemu-3-deps.sh b/.github/workflows/scripts/qemu-3-deps.sh
index 184aed85b..267ae4ad3 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/scripts/qemu-3-deps.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/scripts/qemu-3-deps.sh
@@ -3,12 +3,25 @@
 #    script on it.
 #
 # $1: OS name (like 'fedora41')
+# $2: (optional) Experimental kernel version to install on fedora,
+#     like "6.14".
 ######################################################################
 
 .github/workflows/scripts/qemu-wait-for-vm.sh vm0
+
+# SPECIAL CASE:
+#
+# If the user passed in an experimental kernel version to test on Fedora,
+# we need to update the kernel version in zfs's META file to allow the
+# build to happen.  We update our local copy of META here, since we know
+# it will be rsync'd up in the next step.
+if [ -n "${2:-}" ] ; then
+  sed -i -E 's/Linux-Maximum: .+/Linux-Maximum: 99.99/g' META
+fi
+
 scp .github/workflows/scripts/qemu-3-deps-vm.sh zfs@vm0:qemu-3-deps-vm.sh
 PID=`pidof /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64`
-ssh zfs@vm0 '$HOME/qemu-3-deps-vm.sh' $1
+ssh zfs@vm0 '$HOME/qemu-3-deps-vm.sh' "$@"
 # wait for poweroff to succeed
 tail --pid=$PID -f /dev/null
 sleep 5 # avoid this: "error: Domain is already active"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/zfs-qemu.yml b/.github/workflows/zfs-qemu.yml
index d4578e40a..eb4616220 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/zfs-qemu.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/zfs-qemu.yml
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ on:
         required: false
         default: false
         description: 'Test on CentOS 10 stream'
+      fedora_kernel_ver:
+        type: string
+        required: false
+        default: ""
+        description: "(optional) Experimental kernel version to install on Fedora (like '6.14' or '6.13.3-0.rc3')"
 
 concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
@@ -48,7 +53,15 @@ jobs:
           else
             os_selection="$FULL_OS"
           fi
-          os_json=$(echo ${os_selection} | jq -c)
+
+          if [ ${{ github.event.inputs.fedora_kernel_ver }} != "" ] ; then
+              # They specified a custom kernel version for Fedora.  Use only
+              # Fedora runners.
+              os_json=$(echo ${os_selection} | jq -c '[.[] | select(startswith("fedora"))]')
+          else
+              # Normal case
+              os_json=$(echo ${os_selection} | jq -c)
+          fi
 
           # Add optional runners
           if [ "${{ github.event.inputs.include_stream9 }}" == 'true' ]; then
@@ -92,7 +105,7 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Install dependencies
       timeout-minutes: 20
-      run: .github/workflows/scripts/qemu-3-deps.sh ${{ matrix.os }}
+      run: .github/workflows/scripts/qemu-3-deps.sh ${{ matrix.os }} ${{ github.event.inputs.fedora_kernel_ver }}
 
     - name: Build modules
       timeout-minutes: 30