Installing virtual windows to use with a PV based Quickbooks Pro

Does anyone know the mechanics and software I would need to do this? Also if I wanted to set-up a peer-to-peer network between a PC and Macbook Pro does anyone know the way to set that up? Thanks for your help.
Mike

Also important to note that you will have to get more memory, especially if your Mac has the stock amount that Apple includes by default. You will be running two different systems at the same time. I have the latest Fusion version, fully licensed, and I also put in VirtualBox since it was free anyway, on top of Lion in a Late 2011 MBP. Bare minimum is 8GB. No need to limit yourself like with BootCamp that only likes Win7 nowadays: these virtualizers can take all flavors of Windows including Win 3.11, all flavors of Linux, Solaris, BSD's, heck, even DOS if you can still scrounge up an install diskette and a USB diskette drive...
Network-wise, they run as dependents of the host system ()Lion) via NAT, by default. Meaning that the guest OS (Windows or whatever else you decide to put) hides behind Lion's IP address. However, they can be configured as bridged, in which case they will appear with their own IP address in the same network as Lion; like they were two computers standing side by side. Hence you can set up a P2P like you would wherever you have several computers in the same room.
How many different OS can you run at the same time? Well, on my MBP, with a Core i7 CPU, it has 4 cores capable of running 2 threads each; the equivalent of 8 CPU's of old. Technically, you could push up to 8 different systems, but it woud be impossibly slow. However, with enough RAM and disk space, 2-3 on top of the host OS is quite doable. That's when you want to have a 750GB or 1TB HDD and the full 16GB RAM these Macs can handle from 2011 on down.

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