Virtuemart doesn't appear in components menu

[liquorice]

I had a strange problem with installing Virtuemart 2.0.3#. It reported succes and worked fine but did not appear in the admin components menu. I dived into the database and found that it had a clash with the XMap extension (version 2.2.1). The Virtuemart entry in the #_menu table used an ID which belongs to a XMap virtuemart plugin (which has a lower ID in my #_extensions table). Replacing the ID with the correct Virtuemart #_extensions ID did the trick. What is the cause of this mixup, is this a Joomla, XMap of Virtuemart issue/error/bug? Who's permanent fix is this?

I'am using Joomla 2.5.3, on Windows XAMPP as test environment with MySQL 5.5.16 an PHP 5.3.8.

[stafford]

Same problem here on Joomla 2.5.4 and Virtuemart 2.0.6 running on a LAMP server.

I also have Xmap installed which was the key to the solution for me:

Log in to the back end, components menu, Xmap, Extensions tab: Xmap - Virtuemart Plugin <<< enable this plugin.

Then look in the Components menu it's there. 

Thanks to liquorice for pointing me in the right direction 

[sleepigrl]

Same thing just happened to me when installing VM 2.10 on Joomla 2.5.6.  I also have Xmap installed, so I took stafford's advice and enabled the plugin.  As soon as the plugin was enabled, VM showed up in the admin menu. 

[Georgios Kolomvos]

The solution is here (with or without Xmap): http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=101120.msg336673#msg336673