Just created an OL8 vm under VBox. Avi helped me getting through configuring the two NICs (one NAT, one BRIDGED) and now I have configured the bridged adapter with a fixed IP address. This is on my home network. I am able to ping and ssh from the host computer as well as another computer on the network.
Next issue is to ftp a file from the host to the new OL8 guest. Post creation I installed ftp (yum install ftp). Now in a shell session on the host computer I see this:
ed@ed-Gazelle-00:~/Downloads$ ftp
ftp> open vbol8-01
ftp: connect: No route to host
ftp> quit
ed@ed-Gazelle-00:~/Downloads$ ping vbol8-01
PING vbol8-01 (192.168.0.200) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from vbol8-01 (192.168.0.200): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.390 ms
64 bytes from vbol8-01 (192.168.0.200): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.421 ms
64 bytes from vbol8-01 (192.168.0.200): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.305 ms
^C
So, since 'ping' finds the server with no issue, I guess I'm looking at a firewall issue, but this is getting outside of my expertise.