Of course this XP arrangement will be secondary, even tertiary!
It might even turn up that I do not use it. The program I planned to use with it seems to be running fine now, so that wouldn't be urgent either.
But XP was the best and less buggy Windows I ever used, so there might be a soft side for it there
I never used a VM, so I do not how it would work for me. I will find out about it.
The audio is fine and running great. Ethernet is not, and that seems to be an unsolvable question.