I am now able to register, however. I click on the customer account link, even though I am not registered yet, and it takes me to the registration page for VM. I fill it in and click register and get a success page that I must click on the link sent to my email address. I never received the email. My new account is showing in the admin user manager page but not enabled. I have joomla config set to Self to send email to new user to click link to activate.
using VM 2.9.9g on joomla 3.3.6