Not a stupid question at all. Microsoft and the Internet has advice on a number of alternatives to move data from an old computer to a new one. Most of them are just as valid for virtual machines as they are for physical PCs. They range from use of built-in features such as OneDrive and File History to specialized applications to “the tried and true” manual methods involving an external hard drive. 

if you’re more experienced, you may be able to connect the old virtual machine’s virtual disks to a new virtual machine on Apple Silicon and copy your data from there. 

But the days of picking up a VM on your old Intel Mac, moving it to a brand new Mac and expecting it to run are over if the destination is an Apple Silicon Mac. A direct result of Apple moving away from Intel CPUs.