OK, quickly discovered that I was less brilliant than I thought yesterday. It appears that for the functionality I wanted (both the ability to SSH into the VM and to port forward from my local machine to an application running on the VM) I need to use a NAT and not a bridge network. I spent a while struggling with this and discovered that to assign your VM to the standard 10.0.2.* range and successfully connect to the internet, a NAT drive should be your first network adapter. I'd initially had
I discovered recently that RHEL has a free developer license, something that could have saved me a lot of trouble if I'd known it earlier. Since I do a lot of work in RHEL I've wanted to have a virtual environment that mimics it - I had been working in WSL, but I think having to work with VirtualBox VM does a better job of replicating the experience of working on it in production. You'll need to get a RHEL Developer License to download the necessary ISO image. You can pretty much roll with the