Installing guest additions Ubuntu 16.04 | Kernel configuration is invalid?

Question

I am running Ubuntu 16.04 as a guest system in Windows 8.1 (VirtualBox) and I'm trying to install the guest additions in order to activate 3D acceleration. However, I get the following error messages:

/var/log/vboxadd-install.log

grep: /lib/modules/4.4.0-104-generic/build/include/linux/version.h: No such file or directory
make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 CONFIG_MODULE_SIG= -C /lib/modules/4.4.0-104-generic/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/vbox.0 SRCROOT=/tmp/vbox.0 -j2 modules
make[1]: warning: -jN forced in submake: disabling jobserver mode.
test -e include/generated/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || (        \
echo >&2;                           \
echo >&2 "  ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.";       \
echo >&2 "         include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.";\
echo >&2 "         Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.";  \
echo >&2 ;                          \
/bin/false)
mkdir -p /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions ; rm -f /tmp/vbox.0/.tmp_versions/*
make -f ./scripts/Makefile.build obj=/tmp/vbox.0

sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run:

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox 5.1.28 Guest Additions for Linux...........
VirtualBox Guest Additions installer
Removing installed version 5.1.28 of VirtualBox Guest Additions...
Copying additional installer modules ...
Installing additional modules ...
vboxadd.sh: Starting the VirtualBox Guest Additions.

You may need to restart the Window System (or just restart the guest system)
to enable the Guest Additions.

Steps I've taken:

• Install latest Virtualbox drivers 5.2.4

• install linux-headers-generic

How can I know if my Kernel version is supported or not? What steps could I take from here?

➜  ~ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release:    16.04
Codename:   xenial
➜  ~ uname -r      
4.4.0-104-generic

Solution

Found the solution here, as @N0rbert stated, I installed build-essential and then I prepared my system to build a kernel module using the following commands:

sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade 
sudo apt install build-essential module-assistant dkms
sudo m-a prepare

I don't think dist-upgrade is necessary, maybe upgrade is enough, but use it as you see fit.

/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p :

Not software rendered:    yes
Not blacklisted:          yes
GLX fbconfig:             yes
GLX texture from pixmap:  yes
GL npot or rect textures: yes
GL vertex program:        yes
GL fragment program:      yes
GL vertex buffer object:  yes
GL framebuffer object:    yes
GL version is 1.4+:       yes

Unity 3D supported:       yes

Comments

[N0rbert]

Did you tried to install virtualbox-guest-x11 from repository? It works normally on my 16.04 guest.

[Riccardo]

@N0rbert I had the impression that package only worked for Ubuntu server. I will try that and post if it at least solves the 3D rendering aspect

[N0rbert]

Do you have build-essential installed? I have successfully installed Guest Additions ISO - you can see my question for details.