Debugger not launching automatically in Storyboard running in Linux Ubuntu on a Virtual Machine. Workaround

While using Storyboard 7.2 in Linux Ubuntu 22.04.2 in Virtual Box 7.0 I encountered the issue described in the title. Storyboard’s debugger wouldn’t launch automatically as expected, and the console would show the following message:

WARN   [0.19048]:Unable to load plugin: /home/Crank_Software/Storyboard_Engine/7.2-stable.202207270447/linux-x86_64-opengles_2.0-x11-obj/plugins/libgre-plugin-tslib.so Error: libts.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Debugger v1.4.2
Debugger: Trying to connect to 127.0.0.1:10000 ...
Debugger: Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1:10000 (connection refused)
Debugger: Retrying to connect to 127.0.0.1:10000 in 0.25s ...
Debugger: Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1:10000 (connection refused)
Debugger: Retrying to connect to 127.0.0.1:10000 in 0.25s ...
Debugger: Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1:10000 (connection refused)
Debugger: Retrying to connect to 127.0.0.1:10000 in 0.25s ...

To work this around is possible to launch the debugger manually as described in this post:

How to manually launch Lua Debugger – Crank Software