Can I dual boot a macbook pro running Mavericks with Snow Leopard?

I just got a Macbook Pro with quad core i7 with osx 10.9.5 but need to run software that will not run on a system higher that 10.6.8. How can I partition the drive so that I can install these?

There have been discussions in ASC about using a virtualization software to then
run an older 'server version' of Snow Leopard on a partition within a newer Mac...
You can still buy the Server version of Snow Leopard from Apple. Not sure which
virtualization software or utility you'd need to set it up, though; or if you'd also need
to use BootCamp to set-aside a partition as well.
My antiques don't have a feel that sort of thing...
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