How to migrate to joomla 1.7 and virtuemart 2.0

[djos]

I have joomla 1.5 and virtuemart 1.1.9
How to migrate to joomla 1.7 and virtuemart 2.0 step by step?

[bunglehaze]

Joomla 1.5 - buy SP Upgrade and follow their instructions

Install J1.7 as normal in a testing environment, add your virtuemart tables from j1.5 and then install vm2 in J1.7. Open VM2 and goto tools then tick the everything select box and run it.

[kacper1972]

I thing it's help You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5utvww9DLQ

I show how to migrate Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 1.7 and Virtuemart 1.1 to Virtuemart 1.98rcj. Please tour on subtitels on Youtube video. It's with english subtitels

Goog Luck

[bbw]

DJOS did you figure this out?  there are some things I discovered after about an hour of head banging - for bunglehaze's instructions to work, you have to make sure your db tables all have the same prefix - the old tables will prolly be jos_vm_whateverwhatever and the new ones will have the randomly generated prefix that joomla 1.7 now does during installation, ie u37d_virtuemart_whateverwhatever - you can tell them apart real easily but for the migration thing to work in VM 2.0 you have to have them all the same prefix - whatever method you may use...  The way I did it, was to tell joomla 1.7 to use the prefix jos, imported my old virtuemart tables with jos, and voila!  Once I did THAT, worked great!!  Then later, when I'm finished with the dev work, and I back it all up via Akeeba, put on live server, THEN I'll let joomla 1.7 assign a random prefix for all the tables...  cool!