Installing VirtualBoxAdditions in Ubuntu

In order to install Virtual Box Additions on your newly install Ubuntu virtual machine, you will need to fulfill the following dependencies.

Install dkms and the GNU C Compiler using the following command:

sudo apt-get install dkms gcc

Install the build and header files for Ubuntu using the following command:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

$(uname -r) in the above command just passes your kernel version to apt-get

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