Dual Booting Leopard on MacBook Pro (Early '13)

Hello,
I'm desperately trying to dual boot Leopard (OSX 10.5) on my early 2013 MacBook Pro but am seeing no luck. I know the newer MacBook Pro models do not have the right drivers to run older software so I need a VM such as Parallels to run it. I got the trial version of Parallels but it keeps saying I need OSX Server Leopard. Is there any other way to dual boot leopard on my mac?
I'm wanting to do this as there are certain apps which require Rosetta to run, which support for on Mac was discontinued from OSX Lion.
Thanks in advance
Leon

You need:
1) Parallels (I know this one, I don't know others)
2) A DVD of snow leopard server from Apple ($20)
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