GNOME Boxes and device sharing

Does GNOME Boxes flatpak supports sharing of USB devices? Because I’m unable to, in example, pass an USB stick or a Smart Card reader to the virtual machine.

Hello @alciregi ,
I believe it is working, at least my keyboard, trackball and usb storage get recognized.

Last time I tried that would not work so I had to layer boxes.

I also found this: Flatpak doesn't allow sharing a USB drive with a VM (#236) · Issues · GNOME / GNOME Boxes · GitLab

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Yes, the Flatpak Boxes doesn’t support USB redirection yet. You’d have to layer gnome-boxes.

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