Can you use gns3 and Vmware to create a fully functioning AD environment?

I'm looking into getting my networking and overall system administration skillesets down and I'm wondering if I can make a fully virtualized AD environment in gns3, so that I can practice both networking and Windows administration. Is this possible?

I see you can add vmware vms to gns3 and ping other devices, but can you have a real environment to do something like role out group policy from a domain controller to other vms through a virtual network created on gns3?

I've tried searching google but see nothing on the topic. If this is not possible, then is a physical lab the only way to practice a real networking environment with real Windows systems?