One of the things I hope after the long battle of the last months on the
virtualization field is that the number of free virtual machines to test
products will increase a lot. Lots of times it's difficult to prepare a totally
new environment to test a product and sometimes you're discouraged... having a
ready-to-use virtual machine it's surely a good thing (and permits you to save
lots of time). 
Today I've discovered that the Mono Team has prepared a VMware virtual
machine with a complete Mono environment. This is a great news and a big
chance to test this exciting world..