4 Guest Additions

At this time, Page Fusion can only be controlled with VBoxManage, and only while a VM is shut
down. To enable Page Fusion for a VM, use the following command:
VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --pagefusion on

You can observe Page Fusion operation using some metrics. RAM/VMM/Shared shows the total
amount of fused pages, whereas the per-VM metric Guest/RAM/Usage/Shared will return the
amount of fused memory for a given VM. See chapter 8.33, VBoxManage metrics, page 197 for
information on how to query metrics.

Note: Enabling Page Fusion might indirectly increase the chances for malicious guests
to successfully attack other VMs running on the same host. See chapter 13.3.4, Poten-
tially Insecure Operations, page 329.

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