[SOLVED]Netflix blacks out

[Mayagrafix]

VB under Unbuntu 12.10, running Windows 7 as guest OS. When I start to stream content via Netflix in a Windows guest, after a few minutes it will go black as if the screensaver kicked on. The Menu Toolbar however is still visible, so I am able to press back key go to the Browse mode, and start the selected show again, but after a few minutes it gose black again. If I boot into Windows directly, it works fine.

TIA

[Perryg]

Post the guests log file (as an attachment)
See Online Users Manual for the location of the file.

[Mayagrafix]

Win-7-2013-04-12-22-34-30.log

release log file

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Win-7-2013-04-12-22-34-30.log

release log file

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Win-7-2013-04-10-12-29-32.log

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here are the logs you requested. Thanks for your help.

[Perryg]

I would enable large pages since your processor supports EPT

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EnableLargePages   <integer> = 0x0000000000000000 (0)

See user manual (VBoxManage) modifyvm for syntax

Since your processor only has 4 cores I would reduce this to 2

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NumCPUs         <integer> = 0x0000000000000004 (4)

I can't tell from the log but when you installed the guest additions did you select to install the wddm drivers?

[muddy]

I had the same problem (win 2008R2 guest on LMDE). I first thought it was network related as I was playing with different network config and the problem seemed to have occurred out of the blue. I even went so far as to re-install the guest but it didn't help.

Did some googling and found an old 2011 post here in this forum mentioning the number of virual CPU used. I reduced the number of virtual CPU from 4 to 1. Everything works perfectly after the modification.