Is it possible to have a Lion OS and snow Leopard using the bootcamp?

I bought a macbook pro 13" 2011. I have other programs that will run only in Snow Leopard OS just like Logic Pro 8. Is it possible to install snow leopard aside from my current Lion OS? How to install? Is it possible to use both OS in my mac? I need your help. Thanks!

OOPS! I just noticed you actually have Lion, and want to go back to Snow Leopard. That may or may not work. The first test would be to see if you can boot your new MacBook 13" from a Snow Leopard installation DVD, or from another Mac in Firewire Target mode, or a bootable external Snow Leopard disk (SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner created).
If that works, then Yes, but before trying anything make sure you have full backups (SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner, or even TimeMachine). 2 copies would be even better.
Bootcamp is not needed. Bootcamp is an aid to installing and running the Windows OS
You can install Lion on an exteernal disk, and boot from that by holding down the Option key during boot.
You can repartition your internal disk so you have 2 partitions. You restore your Snow Leopard backup to one partition, and install Lion on the other. You can choose to boot into either partition by holding own the Option key during boot. You could also use System Preferences -> Startup Disk to switch between Snow Leopard and Lion.
You can use virtual machine software (VMware Fusion, Parallels, VirtualBox) on Snow Leopard (does not work the other way), then install Lion in a virtual machine (your MacBook should have a minimum of 4GB if you are going to try this). This would allow you to run Snow Leopard and Lion at the same time.
You could buy one of those kits that replaces your DVD drive with a Solid State Disk (SSD), and instlal Lion on the SSD, and again boot holding the Option key or use Startup Disk system pref to switch between the OS versions.
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