On 21 Jan 2020, Nightfox said the following...

For the network adapter with VirtualBox, in the VM settings, I usually select Br idged Adapter and choose which network interface to use on the host machine, and I haven't had a problem with it.

Same here. In the past I think I've selected Intel Pro 100 and then check "cable connected". You can download the driver for that at intel and then
just use a shared folder to get it into XP.

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