How well will Windows Server run in a virtual machine on OS X Server?

Does anyone have any experience running any of the flavors of Windows Server in a virtual box (either Parallels or VMware) on OS X Server?
I'm looking at setting up a new server. There are a couple of things for which windows is required. I could set up a separate windows box for these, but I'm wondering if it's feasible to set up Windows Server in a virtual box, and solve my problem that way?
The first requirement is to run an Intuit service for running Quickbooks in a network configuration
The second is a small SQL Server database. My plan is to migrate this to MySql eventually, but that is lower on the priority list.

Since you're on Windows 7 I'd probably go for using VirtualBox
https://www.virtualbox.org/ to host the virtual machine.
Downloading 2012 depends what you're after really, if you've got TechNet / MSDN then you can download it from there, otherwise you'd need to have a licenced copy. You can download 180 day evaluation versions from the Microsoft website here :
2012 - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/hh670538.aspx
2012 R2 -
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/dn205286.aspx

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          > "Kumar Allamraju" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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          > > Hi,
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          > > Is there any recomendation from BEA on running the
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          > > different machine that does
          > > not have any managed server?
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          > > weblogic instance
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