(Almost) No USB devices with Ubuntu 14.04 guest

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El Loco
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(Almost) No USB devices with Ubuntu 14.04 guest

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Hi all,

I'm having a problem where my VirtualBox running in a Win7 x64 host, Ubuntu 14.04 guest, shows almost no USB devices. The devices that are available if I click the VirtualBox "Settings->USB->Add New Filter" are the ones that are available inside my Ubuntu guest if I go to "Devices->USB" in the toolbar. Only one device shows up and that is "Unknown device 05A4:9881 [0120]", and I have no idea what that is. On another Win7 computer of mine, I see several USB devices, and also on a Win8.1 host. For the life of me, I can't figure out why my home computer doesn't see any USB devices (with that one exception), such as a USB thumb drive or my Android phone.

I am running VirtualBox 4.3.26 r98988 and I have installed the Extension Pack for this version.

Help would be greatly, greatly appreciated!
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