David,
What do you exactly trying to do? you mentioned you wanted to test phpvms and I mentioned EasyPHP so you can test it. Sorry if I'm being rude but every software has a manual that people actually read before use, so they can get the idea of what it does and EasyPHP is nothing different.
SO,
You need to run easyphp, right click on the icon in system tray, then click "administration" then a page opens and you click on "Manage your data bases" Then create a DB and a username then install phpvms and provide the DB info to it, so it can create the tables and run the software.