Your virtualbox network is likely just using NAT, so to the BBB it will appear that the traffic is coming from the host computer.
Agreeing with what Robert already said, I would start from the command line tools (gdb & gdbserver) and work up.
Regards,
Jon
Yay, resolved, C/C++ remote debugging in eclipse now working!
Thank you for all the help, in the end I changed the set-up of the virtualbox configuration, setting the network settings to:
“Bridged Adapter”.
I also installed:
sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5
Now it works perfrectly.
Happy chappy!