Visual Studio 2015/Linux extension 1.0.7: breakpoints are ignored - c++

I am writing a small Linux app using Visual Studio 2015. To do so, I am using the Visual Studio 2015 Linux Extension, v 1.0.7 (the latest version as I'm writing this post).
I can compile and run the app on the remote environment using gdbserver, but I can't use breakpoints. I don't get why.
Details:
The target environment is a remote Ubuntu 64, on which g++, gdb and gdbserver have been upgraded today.
The extension works in that sense the C++ code is properly sent to the remote environment and properly compiled as a result of pressing F7:
My code (I am using some toy code for this post)
The resulting build log
The code is also properly executed remotely using gdbserver when I'm running it: the output is properly sent back by gdbserver as I can view it in VS's Linux Console Window.
My problem: when I set a breakpoint in my code (as in line 7 of my code above), it is just ignored. And when I just press F11 to start debugging straight at startup, the program just runs as if I wasn't debugging.
I'm wondering whether this is tied to the debugging from host 127.0.0.1 message above.
Of course I'm in debug mode when trying:
Optimizations are disabled:
Symbols are there:
And debug settings are by default. I left them unchanged after having installed the extension. There are no ports set, could it be the cause?
And finally, I can do some step-by step debugging if I replace gdbserver by gdb in my debug configuration above, and if I use F10 (or any other stepping option), not F5, to start debugging. The drawbacks being that I lose the Linux Console and I still can't set breakpoints, they are ignored. I have to step during the whole execution path:
This is the first time I am trying this Linux Extension with a remote environement. I was formerly using it with a local Cygwin and had no issues with breakpoints. But this was the previous version (1.05) of the Visual Studio 2015 Linux Extension so this does not prove anything.
Any idea?

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GDB Server: JLinkGDBServerCL.exe
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Some Video/documentation that helped me:
Debugging with GDB at 33:35 (Video by JetBrain)
GDB documentation on Jetbrain
I hope this helped :)
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The attach feature is a recently released feature of the CLions debugger:
Further reading:
More power to debug: Attach to local process (January 20, 2016)
CLion 1.2 roadmap (August 31, 2015)
Debugging in CLion (May 8, 2015 )
CLion answers frequently asked questions (September 16, 2014)
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I can now step through the program and watch variables. I even can write gdb-commands directly in the console-view. yabadabadooooooo
Hope that helps to others as well. Can not tell, what was really the winner-action.
But each answer gives more new questions. Now I got 3 of them.
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http://wiki.eclipse.org/TM_and_RSE_FAQ#How_can_I_do_Remote_Debugging_with_CDT.3F
...that even if the CDT has changed since that wiki page was made, you should still be able to change the debug command to:
ssh remotehost gdb
instead of using TM which uses gdbserver. This will probably be slightly slower than the TM remote debugging since that actually uses a local gdb, but on the other hand this way you won't have to NFS or SMB mount your source code to make it available to the local debugger (and if you're on a LAN it probably won't matter anyhow).
There's also a reference TCF implementation for linux, which you may or may not have any luck recompiling for AIX, but it allows for remote debugging if gdbserver is otherwise not available:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/DSDP/TM/TCF_FAQ
tried also to remotly debug an aix-appl with windows eclipse-cdt-gdb.
Got blocked at the end with unix/windows path-problems. Maybe my result can help u a little further - maybe you already got it work. I'm interested in your comment. asked on eclipse news portal- following the answer of martin oberhuber (thanks again) tried dsp dd (also blocked with path problem) and set an request in eclipse bugzilla.
here the link to news:
http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php?id=406&group=eclipse.dsdp.tm
Here my bugzilla:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=252758
At the moment we still debug localy with xldb but I am trying ddd-gdb at the moment. At least locally gdb is running.