Hey,
I am having exactly the same problem. I have posted
about it more than once, to no avail.
I wonder if bridging did ever work.

A D wrote:
> Hi! I'm completely new to VirtualBox forum. please have patience with me. 
> I've installed
>  virtualbox v1.5.6 on debian etch host machine. Installed windows XP 
> successfully as 
> guest OS. Problem is My Network Places doesn't list the network computers. So 
> I tried to 
> bridge with br0 as static address. 
>  Here's what i did:
> 1) I added my user to vboxusers.
>
> 2)chmod 0666 /dev/net/tun and group of /dev/net/tun to vboxusers
>
> 3) I added the lines for tap0 and br0 in /etc/network/interfaces file at VB 
> manual says. 
> So it looks like this:
>
>
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
>
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
>
> # The primary network interface
> allow-hotplug eth1
> iface eth1 inet static
>       address 192.168.1.103
>       netmask 255.255.255.0
>       network 192.168.1.0
>       broadcast 192.168.1.255
>       gateway 192.168.1.1
>       # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
>       dns-nameservers XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
>
>
> auto tap0
> iface tap0 inet manual
>       up ifconfig $IFACE 0.0.0.0 up
>       down ifconfig $IFACE down
>       tunctl_user ad
>
> auto br0
> iface br0 inet static
>     address 192.168.1.103
>     network 192.168.1.0
>     netmask 255.255.255.0
>     broadcast 192.168.1.255
>     gateway 192.168.1.1
>     bridge_ports eth1 tap0
>
>
>
>
> 4) After reboot chose tap0 in VirtualBox Network settings window. Started 
> winxp but can't
> connect to internet or network. My windows xp is setup to fetch IP and dns 
> address
> dynamically. When I use NAT interface in VirtualBox Network settings window, 
> winxp can connect
> to internet but doesn't see network.
>
> Is there anything i missed?  For info here's ifconfig:
>
> br0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:95:D8:44:7F
>           inet addr:192.168.1.103  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           inet6 addr: fe80::211:95ff:fed8:447f/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:185 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:83 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:50418 (49.2 KiB)  TX bytes:19745 (19.2 KiB)
>
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:95:D8:44:7F
>           inet6 addr: fe80::211:95ff:fed8:447f/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:189 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:87 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:53866 (52.6 KiB)  TX bytes:19982 (19.5 KiB)
>           Interrupt:185 Base address:0xe000
>
> eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:76:96:76:6F
>           UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>           Interrupt:169 Base address:0xae00
>
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:560 (560.0 b)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)
>
> tap0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 92:F6:66:C0:66:2F
>           inet6 addr: fe80::90f6:66ff:fec0:662f/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:88 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
>
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