Using USB flash drive

I would like to use a USB flash drive to backup files from my whonix sessions. When I plug in USB flash drives they don’t appear to be recognized in whonix, only in the host OS. How can I get whonix to recognize the flash drive?

i’m using KVM (not virtual box) and followed the directions for shared folders on KVM [Preformatted text](https://www.whonix.org/wiki/KVM#Shared_Folders), but i’m still not able to see files i placed in the shared folder on the host machine in the whonix VM.

Probably unspecific to Whonix.

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