[Renato1 (Renato)]

Might it not be easier to just speed up your old PC with the XP on it?
It shouldn't be any slower than when you first got it.

Go to Uninstall Programs, and uninstall any programs you don't recognise. or which you may remember slowed down your PC after you installed them.

Download the free Winpatrol program, and install it without activating protections(or deactivate them in the Prefernces menu, imcluding its own autoamtic Start-up). Then go to its list of Start-Up programs, and stop all but the essential ones from starting up on Start-Up. Look at the active services, and change the priority on those associated with programs that you aren't actually using when just started up, but which have started up anyway.

Download Spybot Search and Destroy, install it without advanced features, load updates, and scan the computer for annoying bits of adware that may be on your machine.

Finally, if you have complex anti-virus/internet security on the computer, uninstall it and don't use the internet on that computer - or if you must - install small free antivirus programs like AVG or Avast.

As for transferring XP, I don't know VM Ware, but Oracle VM Virtual box certainly supports XP.
Regards,
Renato