diff --git a/.github/workflows/basic-ci-amd64.yaml b/.github/workflows/basic-ci-amd64.yaml
index c9e553b864..f2ea4292a8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/basic-ci-amd64.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/basic-ci-amd64.yaml
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         containerd_version: ['active']
         vmm: ['dragonball', 'cloud-hypervisor', 'qemu-runtime-rs']
+    # TODO: enable me when https://github.com/containerd/containerd/issues/11640 is fixed
+    if: false
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     env:
       CONTAINERD_VERSION: ${{ matrix.containerd_version }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/basic-ci-s390x.yaml b/.github/workflows/basic-ci-s390x.yaml
index 9fcf50da57..388ab94146 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/basic-ci-s390x.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/basic-ci-s390x.yaml
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         containerd_version: ['active']
         vmm: ['qemu-runtime-rs']
+    # TODO: enable me when https://github.com/containerd/containerd/issues/11640 is fixed
+    if: false
     runs-on: s390x-large
     env:
       CONTAINERD_VERSION: ${{ matrix.containerd_version }}