diff --git a/.github/lockdown.yml b/.github/lockdown.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9acc393f1cf1daed300b48dc68d4209b5eff2f38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/lockdown.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Configuration for Repo Lockdown - https://github.com/dessant/repo-lockdown
+
+# Close issues and pull requests
+close: true
+
+# Lock issues and pull requests
+lock: true
+
+issues:
+  comment: |
+    Thank you for your interest in the QEMU project.
+
+    This repository is a read-only mirror of the project's master
+    repostories hosted on https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu.git.
+    The project does not process issues filed on GitHub.
+
+    The project issues are tracked on Launchpad:
+    https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu
+
+    QEMU welcomes bug report contributions. You can file new ones on:
+    https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+filebug
+
+pulls:
+  comment: |
+    Thank you for your interest in the QEMU project.
+
+    This repository is a read-only mirror of the project's master
+    repostories hosted on https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu.git.
+    The project does not process merge requests filed on GitHub.
+
+    QEMU welcomes contributions of code (either fixing bugs or adding new
+    functionality). However, we get a lot of patches, and so we have some
+    guidelines about contributing on the project website:
+    https://www.qemu.org/contribute/
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 9d156d73b31e522404494ad672ebe42b94dc258a..0559e847901a9245348d9321eb9839c826eb644c 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -2833,6 +2833,7 @@ M: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
 M: Fam Zheng <fam@euphon.net>
 R: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
 S: Maintained
+F: .github/lockdown.yml
 F: .travis.yml
 F: scripts/travis/
 F: .shippable.yml