I'm not sure how feasible this is, but it would sure be handy if there was a way to provide a set of systems with varying OS's to be used for testing by maven developers. There have been numerous occasions where things are breaking on OS's that aren't readily available to the developer. The current eclipse plugin situation on Solaris is a good example. Now I could certainly go pull a machine out of the pile and set something up, but this is overkill for the occasional testing / issue reproduction purposes.
I wonder if VMware donates licenses to OS projects so we could multi host on a single system? Just a thought...
