I collected some reports from our forum about installations that seem to work. But please give your own advice from your experience in replies to this post. Thanks.
Macbook Pro with Lion, Parallels virtual machine with Windows 7, installed Macromedia Freehand in it. Toggle between a Mac and a PC when you work.
Maverick and VMware Fusion 6 on Mac Laptop, Snow Leopard server is installed. FreeHand is working like a charm. Drag & drop from Snow Leopard desktop to Maverick desktop.
Sheepshaver on Mavericks 10.9, running Mac OS9 and FreeHand 8