I have a scenario to run cassandra of two different versions in the same machine but at different ports.
I started one cluster with following cassandra config at port 9161, 
# TCP port, for commands and data                                                                   
storage_port: 7000                                                                                  
# SSL port, for encrypted communication.  Unused unless enabled in                                  
# encryption_options                                                                                
ssl_storage_port: 7004 
port for the CQL native transport to listen for clients on                                        
native_transport_port: 9043
port for Thrift to listen for clients on                                                          
rpc_port: 9161
seed_provider:                                                                                      
    # Addresses of hosts that are deemed contact points.                                            
    # Cassandra nodes use this list of hosts to find each other and learn                           
    # the topology of the ring.  You must change this if you are running                            
    # multiple nodes!                                                                               
    - class_name: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSeedProvider                                   
      parameters:                                                                                   
          # seeds is actually a comma-delimited list of addresses.                                                                                    
          # Ex: "<ip1>,<ip2>,<ip3>"                                                                 
          - seeds: "127.0.0.1"
It runs well,
$ /usr/local/apache-cassandra-2.1.1/bin/cassandra -f
...
INFO  05:08:42 Loading settings from file:/usr/local/apache-cassandra-2.1.1/conf/cassandra.yaml
...
INFO  05:09:29 Starting listening for CQL clients on localhost/127.0.0.1:9043...
INFO  05:09:29 Binding thrift service to localhost/127.0.0.1:9161
INFO  05:09:29 Listening for thrift clients...
INFO  05:19:25 No files to compact for user defined compaction
$ jps
5866 CassandraDaemon
8848 Jps
However while starting another cassandra cluster configured to run at port 9160 with config, 
# TCP port, for commands and data                                                                   
storage_port: 7000                                                                                  
# SSL port, for encrypted communication.  Unused unless enabled in                                  
# encryption_options                                                                                
ssl_storage_port: 7004 
port for the CQL native transport to listen for clients on                                        
native_transport_port: 9042
port for Thrift to listen for clients on                                                          
rpc_port: 9160
seed_provider:                                                                                      
    # Addresses of hosts that are deemed contact points.                                            
    # Cassandra nodes use this list of hosts to find each other and learn                           
    # the topology of the ring.  You must change this if you are running                            
    # multiple nodes!                                                                               
    - class_name: org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleSeedProvider                                   
      parameters:                                                                                   
          # seeds is actually a comma-delimited list of addresses.                                                                                    
          # Ex: "<ip1>,<ip2>,<ip3>"                                                                 
          - seeds: "127.0.0.1"
it fails with message
$ /usr/local/apache-cassandra-2.0.11/bin/cassandra -f
Unable to bind JMX, is Cassandra already running?
How can I make it run two different version of cassandra in the same machine?
The problem is that I have no permission to stop the previous version. Neither can I use https://github.com/pcmanus/ccm