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I have seen this discussed for VM 2 but have tried this solution and it does not work unfortunately. The solution for VM2 is below:
Create a template override with categories.php and change the below around line 74:

echo $category->images[0]->displayMediaThumb("",false);

With
$productModel = VmModel::getModel('product');
$prod_in_category = $productModel->getProductListing(false, 1, false, true, true, true, $category->virtuemart_category_id);
$productModel->addImages($prod_in_category[0],1);
if(!empty($prod_in_category[0]->images[0])){
    echo $prod_in_category[0]->images[0]->displayMediaThumb("",false);
} else {
    echo $category->images[0]->displayMediaThumb("",false);

Or for a random image from the category us:

$productModel = VmModel::getModel('product');
$prod_in_category = $productModel->getProductsInCategory($category->virtuemart_category_id);
$sel = array_rand($prod_in_category);
$productModel->addImages($prod_in_category[$sel],1);
if(!empty($prod_in_category[$sel]->images[0])){
    echo $prod_in_category[$sel]->images[0]->displayMediaThumb("",false);
} else {
    echo $category->images[0]->displayMediaThumb("",false);
}

I have tried both of the code snippets above but i just get an empty page so am guessing something may have changed between versions. Can anyone advise? I am using Joomla 3.4.5 and Virtuemart 3.0.9.

Best Regards
Donna

hey I want this in the new version as well. I am investigating how to do it too.

Quotewanting to learn to create good templates

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Again, again and again.

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