Dual Boot Lion-Snow?

I'm tired of Lion's unsupprted by just about everything, It's seems to run fine 90% of the time but not with a good protion of my apps. Problem is a have gotten a few new ones that are Lion only... soooo anyone tried dual boot with Lion and Snow? will there be issues?  I'm going to give it a shot. Backing up Lion right now.  What are other peoples view/?

I simply devided my 500GB OSX HDD into 2x 250GB (Diskutils>Partitioning) and first did a CLEAN INSTALL of OSX Lion, than migrated the whole of OSX SL into it!
At first bootup (option-key at startup) the Lion system was very slow due to indexing so I just left the system running over-night. The next day I used ONYX (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx) to clean the system from its install and migration!
This is still a test-drive for me to sort out and try evrything.
So far so good, if performance/compatibility changes to much I'll just delete the whole partition MAC_OSX_LION and carry on with my life with MAC_OSX_SL!!!!
Cheers!

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