INSTALLATION: missing interface although driver loaded after reboot

Hi,
Newbie to Arch. I went through the install, loaded base, configured and reboot. Comes up and I can login as root as well as my user account. The problem is that I don't have networking after the reboot. I am installing into virtualbox and using an Intel PRO 1000 adapter. After the reboot, lspci shows the adapter and the e1000 module is loaded, however, I do not have an ethernet interface to work with?? ipconfig only shows a loopback. What did I miss?
Thanks in advance.
John

After the reboot:
lspci -v
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gibabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter
etc...
Kernel Driver in use: e1000
Kernel Modules: e1000
ifconfig
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet5 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid
etc...
no ethernet interface. probably should mention using latest iso of archlinux-2013.6.01-dual.iso which detects and brings it up automatically during install. just after install where my problem lies.

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