Is there a program so I can dual-boot my system?

Just a question I'm wondering about: is there any way I can have both Tiger and Leopard up and running on my machine at the same time without having to exit one OS and reboot from the other?
I ask, because I did my upgrades this weekend. Painless and mostly error-free, BTW; I followed these boards, did my maintenance, created my backups, and performed "Simple Upgrades" on all three machines (iMac 20" Dual Core, 17" iLamp, 15" iBook) with absolutely no disasters at all. The systems are all stable in my testing so far, and I do not anticipate any major catastrophes arising.
But, I'm having a problem with my printer in Leopard that I am still trying to resolve; in the meantime I can print just fine in Tiger. However, it is irritating having to switch back-n-forth just to do that.
So, I was just wondering if there was a away to have both Tiger (on my Firewire drive) and Leopard (on the internal drive) running at the same time. If not, no big deal, I can live with it.

No. Mac OS X cannot be run in an emulator.
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