Running 2 versions of OSX at once

I have my hard drive partitioned and am running Snow Leopard on one (so I can use some older power pc applications) and lion on the other. Is it possible to virtually run both at the same time? I downlaoded Parallels Desktop 7, but I don't see how to run another version of OSX with that. It only wants to run Windows. Will Fusion work for this, or perhaps another program? Or am I stuck running one at a time with Boot Camp?

VMware Fusion v4 will run Lion on a Snow Leopard system (I'm doing this on my Snow Leopard iMac), but not the other way around (as the Snow Leopard license does not allow this, and all the virtual machine vendors honor the license). I suspect the latest version of Parallels and VirtualBox might be able to do the same thing.
Your Mac needs to have more than 2GB of RAM, as Lion will want VMware Fusion to create a virtual machine with at least 2GB (which gets locked down, so it is not available for other apps).

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(including Classic OS 9)
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