Pure drupal multisite need to run the same drupal version.
Here is a caution, but I have not yet figured out the root of the issue (my searching for it led me to this question!). I had OpenAtrium (Drupal6) and Drupal 7 running successfully side-by-side as described above on a dev machine (separate directories, separate databases, separate etc/host domains, etc). In trying to work through an OpenAtrium image-upload issue (Clean URLs is a must), somehow, one of the admin buttons I clicked in OpenAtrium (I believe it was the OA option to repair permissions) completely trashed my Drupal 7 site.
Since this was all dev/experimental, no data was lost, but be forewarned that bad things might happen.
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