diff --git a/jetty-osgi/test-jetty-osgi/pom.xml b/jetty-osgi/test-jetty-osgi/pom.xml
index 570074ecc25..7b3316522a5 100644
--- a/jetty-osgi/test-jetty-osgi/pom.xml
+++ b/jetty-osgi/test-jetty-osgi/pom.xml
@@ -391,6 +391,9 @@
           <!-- No point defining -Xbootclasspath as the actual OSGi VM is run as a forked process by pax-exam -->
           <!-- But we do pass the sys property of the alpn-boot jar so that it can be configued inside tests -->
           <argLine>-Dmortbay-alpn-boot=${settings.localRepository}/org/mortbay/jetty/alpn/alpn-boot/${alpn.version}/alpn-boot-${alpn.version}.jar</argLine>
+          <systemPropertyVariables>
+            <mavenRepoPath>${settings.localRepository}</mavenRepoPath>
+          </systemPropertyVariables>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
       <plugin>
diff --git a/jetty-osgi/test-jetty-osgi/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/osgi/test/TestJettyOSGiBootCore.java b/jetty-osgi/test-jetty-osgi/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/osgi/test/TestJettyOSGiBootCore.java
index 8baf71a67b8..519b78aae1b 100644
--- a/jetty-osgi/test-jetty-osgi/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/osgi/test/TestJettyOSGiBootCore.java
+++ b/jetty-osgi/test-jetty-osgi/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/osgi/test/TestJettyOSGiBootCore.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import java.util.List;
 
 import javax.inject.Inject;
 
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.StringUtil;
 import org.junit.Ignore;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
@@ -82,6 +83,10 @@ public class TestJettyOSGiBootCore
     {
         List<Option> res = new ArrayList<Option>();
 
+        String mavenRepoPath = System.getProperty( "mavenRepoPath" );
+        if (!StringUtil.isBlank( mavenRepoPath))
+            res.add( systemProperty( "org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.localRepository" ).value( mavenRepoPath ) );
+
         res.add(mavenBundle().groupId( "org.ow2.asm" ).artifactId( "asm" ).versionAsInProject().start());
         res.add(mavenBundle().groupId( "org.ow2.asm" ).artifactId( "asm-commons" ).versionAsInProject().start());
         res.add(mavenBundle().groupId( "org.ow2.asm" ).artifactId( "asm-tree" ).versionAsInProject().start());