diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..303fe720d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.cirrus.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+freebsd_12_task:
+  freebsd_instance:
+    image: freebsd-12-0-release-amd64
+    cpu: 8
+    memory: 8G
+  env:
+    CIRRUS_CLONE_DEPTH: 1
+  install_script: pkg install -y
+    bison curl cyrus-sasl git glib gmake gnutls
+    nettle perl5 pixman pkgconf png usbredir
+  script:
+    - mkdir build
+    - cd build
+    - ../configure || { cat config.log; exit 1; }
+    - gmake -j8
+    - gmake -j8 V=1 check
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 9a76845581..eecfafad56 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -2475,6 +2475,14 @@ W: https://travis-ci.org/qemu/qemu
 W: https://app.shippable.com/github/qemu/qemu
 W: http://patchew.org/QEMU/
 
+FreeBSD Hosted Continuous Integration
+M: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
+M: Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org>
+L: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
+S: Maintained
+F: .cirrus.yml
+W: https://cirrus-ci.com/github/qemu/qemu
+
 Guest Test Compilation Support
 M: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
 R: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>