Possible issue with shared folder from host to virtual machine

I ran into an issue when trying to connect a shared folder from my host to my virtual OS in KVM. The folder actually does appear in the virtual OS, but it's empty, unlike the folder in the host which has files in it. I'm not ruling out the possibility that I configured something wrong, but the instructions on setting it up seemed to be pretty straightforward. Basically I did the following procedures: mkdir ~/shared chmod 777 ~/shared Went to VirtManager enabled shared memory, added FileSystem with driver virtiofs. My source path to find the folder was /home/username/shared and the target path was /mnt/shared. Upon booting the virtual machine everything seemed to work. I found the folder where it should be, only there was nothing in it. And on the host there was files I had already placed in the folder. So this is where I'm at now.