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having an annying issue with my VirtualBox 5 under Ubuntu 15.04, trying to run a Win8.1 VM.

I cannot access any USB devices, nor does the virtualbox interface show that I have any installed. Googling the problem lead me to try a few things, none of which had any effect.

  • Adding my user to the virtualbox group within ubuntu sudo usermod -G vboxusers -a $USE

  • installing the latest VB (rather than the Ubuntu repo version)

  • installing the latest guest additions

The laptop is very new and possibly down to poor driver support. But is there anything else I can try in the meantime?

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Answer provided by the VirtualBox forums thanks to user mpack!

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=69525&p=331585#p331585

  1. Go to https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
  2. Looks for 'Extension Pack' and match to your version
  3. Install it, done!
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