New Install Failed

[cybercon]

A new install of Joomla 1.7 with VM 2 brought about the following errors:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/pairakee/public_html/demo/libraries/joomla/database/database/mysqli.php on line 391

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/pairakee/public_html/demo/libraries/joomla/database/database/mysqli.php on line 391

Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/pairakee/public_html/demo/tmp/install_4ef0d2ff90c19/install/script.virtuemart.php on line 348
VmConfig::installVMConfig: COM_VIRTUEMART_SQL_ERROR DB function failed with error number 2006
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SQL =

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I am using
Apache version    2.2.17
PHP version    5.2.16
MySQL version    5.1.56

[dario_k]

I've got the same error.

Can anyone help please.

[miket3]

VM 2.0  doesnt't even install at all for me.  I tried on brand new installs of J1.5.25  and J1.7.3. 

>> 10min later
I was able to install VM 2.0.   I did not extract the zip file prior to installing.  Newbie mistake I guess.  But as a new user I installed only few packages, and the common trend is:
1. download zip file.
2.Install from downloaded zip file.

I also noticed that plenty of extensions prefer to have multiple zip files installed.   Joomla... for some silly reason has yet to provide an adequate extension installer. So the blame for VM installation issues falls more toward the Joomla team.