How to run old Mac OS & apps

Hi,
Recently, a co-worker showed me that he is able to run really old Windows versions inside a window on his XP desktop. He called a virtual machine. I am not Windows user, but this is one feature that seems to be very cool. Question, is this capability available for OSX? I still have my original system disks, Apple and Claris app disks from my high school SE, the SE died long ago but I would love to run those again for their beautiful simplicity.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Will

While you wouldn't be able to run a virtual machine to do this you could use an emulator. Essentially a virtual machine makes use of the hardware in a machine, the emulator is required to emulate different hardware.
Depending on what version of the OS you wanted to run and which hardware you wanted to emulate, you could use SheepShaver (PPC emulation, system 8-9) or Basilisk II (68k emulation like your SE, system 7 and below). Updated versions of both of these for OS X are available at http://www.emaculation.com/forum/
The caveat of these emulators is that you need access to a Mac ROM file. To legitimately have a ROM you need to own the physical machine/ROM that the ROM image is pulled from (there's utilities to copy the ROM available). SheepShaver can use the ROM file from the System Install disks I believe.

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