Run Snow Leopard Server on Mountain Lion?

Greetings!
I wondered if some kind person could post at least a link to a walk-through guide as I keep getting Guru Meditation errors when trying to install Snow Leopard Server 10.6.3 on Mountain Lion 10.8.5.
I am currently running virtual box 4.3.14 and Mountain Lion 10.8.5 as my host OS.
Thank you in advance…
CK

There is not a link as Apple does not support doing this.  However, some have succeeded by installing Parallels (you have to purchase it) and then installing Snow Leopard Server to run under Parallels.  If your MacBook Pro came with Mountain Lion preinstalled, you cannot run a lower version of Mac OS X by itself.  It has to be the server version and running under Parallels. 
Look at the bottom of this page under More Like This for some threads that deal with the approach you need to follow.

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