XP VM under Windows 8 shows network cable unplugged

I’m not much of a VM expert. I have a couple of win7 systems running a WinXP VM that I installed manually, in all those cases, the virtual network has always just booted up and worked. Under Win8 Pro-RTM, I did a XP VM that I loaded myself (versus an XP mode) and it loads the virtual network adapter but it reports that the cable is unplugged

I’m not clear on what this means. Obviously, it’s a VM so there is no cable to plug in. I’m guessing I’m suppose to match that Virtual Nic to the regular (aka Host’s) NIC but I’m not see any options to do so.

On the same system I run windows 7 Ult and a XP install and the network loads up on boot.

Any guesses here?

Thanks

Dale