Public bug reported:

Vboxvideo lacks PRIME support. A patch has been sent upstream.

https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2017-March/014293.html

It may take some time until that hits the repository. I attached a patch
I tested on zesty and allows unity8 to run virtualbox.

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Patch added: "Path for vboxvideo module to allow importing and exporting of 
dmabuf fd"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1669807/+attachment/4830781/+files/add-prime-to-vbox-video.patch

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