OSX Xampp broken on Big Sur 11.3

[NettyPipe]

I have a 2018 Macbook Pro with the Intel cpu and after the Big Sur 11.3 update i get this:

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INFO: Starting "XAMPP" stack
ERROR: Error starting "XAMPP" stack: cannot calculate MAC address: hv_vm_create unknown error -85377023

Does anyone have a fix or the directory at which i can extract my databases to use in MAMP instead?

Thanks.

[evripides]

same error here any solution? How we can get our data if we need a fresh install?

[poulinc]

Same for me

[costinel.m]

Hi guys,

I am having the same problem as you have, however, I fixed it by installing the version without VM from here https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Mac%20OS%20X/8.0.3/ ( the one that have 172 MB ).

This will fix the issue with the error, but if you have files inside htdocs folder (the XAMPP version with the error), you can't access them without mounting it first.

Hope that will help with your problem.

[Xunilpenguin]

yep! I'm seeing it also.

[anupampammi]

Same for me
I have a project to submit by 2nd may. >95% of my project is done. Now the xampp is broken.

If I reinstall xampp will the files be in the same htdocs directory. or how to restore the htdocs files?
Kindly help me please

[Xunilpenguin]

"This will fix the issue with the error, but if you have files inside htdocs folder (the XAMPP version with the error), you can't access them without mounting it first. "

So, how do we mount the htdocs folder when the stack wont start ?

[end1an]

I have the same issue as you guys.
I cannot to fix the xampp-vm to be working, so I decided to move the project to docker instead.
First, I have to restore the htdocs files by using qemu-img to convert the qcow2 to vmdk. The command is look like this ..

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qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vmdk machine.qcow2 ~/Downloads/VM-to-convert/machine.vmdk

You can follow the step from the link below.
ref: https://www.virtualdennis.com/how-to-convert-qcow2-to-vmdk-for-vmware-using-macos/
Second, we got the the recovery file with vmdk extension now then just change the extension to .zip and extract the zip file.
Finally, your htdocs folders are inside the extracted folders /opt/lamp/htdocs!

[NettyPipe]

I have the same issue as you guys.
I cannot to fix the xampp-vm to be working, so I decided to move the project to docker instead.
First, I have to restore the htdocs files by using qemu-img to convert the qcow2 to vmdk. The command is look like this ..

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qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vmdk machine.qcow2 ~/Downloads/VM-to-convert/machine.vmdk

You can follow the step from the link below.
ref: https://www.virtualdennis.com/how-to-convert-qcow2-to-vmdk-for-vmware-using-macos/
Second, we got the the recovery file with vmdk extension now then just change the extension to .zip and extract the zip file.
Finally, your htdocs folders are inside the extracted folders /opt/lamp/htdocs!

What tool did u use to unzip, im not getting it to decompress.

[fryzex]

I have a 2018 Macbook Pro with the Intel cpu and after the Big Sur 11.3 update i get this:

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INFO: Starting "XAMPP" stack
ERROR: Error starting "XAMPP" stack: cannot calculate MAC address: hv_vm_create unknown error -85377023

Does anyone have a fix or the directory at which i can extract my databases to use in MAMP instead?

Thanks.

Hey! Did you manage to fix your problem? If yes can you explain? thanks

[end1an]

I have the same issue as you guys.
I cannot to fix the xampp-vm to be working, so I decided to move the project to docker instead.
First, I have to restore the htdocs files by using qemu-img to convert the qcow2 to vmdk. The command is look like this ..

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qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vmdk machine.qcow2 ~/Downloads/VM-to-convert/machine.vmdk

You can follow the step from the link below.
ref: https://www.virtualdennis.com/how-to-convert-qcow2-to-vmdk-for-vmware-using-macos/
Second, we got the the recovery file with vmdk extension now then just change the extension to .zip and extract the zip file.
Finally, your htdocs folders are inside the extracted folders /opt/lamp/htdocs!

What tool did u use to unzip, im not getting it to decompress.

Hello,
Changing the file extension to .zip then I use a tool name "keka" to decompress the file.

[tch7227]

i am new here, so hopefully i'm doing well...
I had the same issue and i found a solution or workaround for me and maybe it will help you as well.
read everything before you try it out and of course no guarantee...

1. I converted my vm data (~/.bitnami/stackman/machines/xampp/vm/machine.qcow2) from qcow2 to vmdk (as end1an described)

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qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vmdk machine.qcow2 ~/Downloads/machine.vmdk

(for installing qemu - https://www.qemu.org/download/#macos - I used homebrew - https://brew.sh)
2. I changed the machine.vmdk to machine.zip and extracted it (also with keka - https://www.keka.io/en/)

3. i installed xampp 7.4.16 for macOS with the installer (not vm)
4. I copied my projects from the old restored /opt/lampp/htdocs folder to the new one /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs
5. I copied my projects database folders + phpmyadmin from the old restored /opt/lampp/var/mysql/ folder to the new one /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql
6. i copied ibdata1, ib_logfile0, ib_logfile1 from the old restored /opt/lampp/var/mysql/ folder to the new one /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql
7. i copied db.myd, db.myi, db.frm and proc.myd, proc.myi, proc.frm from the old restored /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql/ folder to the new one /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql/ (I'm not sure if this step is a must, but I did it...)
8. i fixed the file/folder permissions/rights for the files I copied to mysql or mysql/mysql to the same like the others in these folders with the terminal (for changes I used sudo chown -R _mysql [file or folder], sudo chgrp -R _mysql [file or folder], sudo chmod -R 770 [file or folder] and ls -l for listing) - be carful by changing rights

after restarting mysql it worked (before I used a err log file to see why the mysql server didn't start /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql/usersname-macbookname.local.err) ... some project Wordpress settings are lost (I don't no why, but nothing important for me) and the link to the localhost is now localhost without port :8080 ...

AT LEAST I've got all my databases, files, folders etc - good luck

some more links I used:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29258769/how-to-restore-mysql-database-in-xampp
https://superuser.com/questions/1328965/how-to-restore-mysql-database-using-files-on-data-folder
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38759870/xampp-mysql-table-doesnt-exist-in-engine-1932/44799226

[Xunilpenguin]

I get this after copying the machine.vmdk to machine.zip and then trying to unzip it.

[]$ unzip machine.zip
Archive: machine.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of machine.zip or
machine.zip.zip, and cannot find machine.zip.ZIP, period.

anyone else seen this one?

[chomphoo]

i am new here, so hopefully i'm doing well...
I had the same issue and i found a solution or workaround for me and maybe it will help you as well.
read everything before you try it out and of course no guarantee...

1. I converted my vm data (~/.bitnami/stackman/machines/xampp/vm/machine.qcow2) from qcow2 to vmdk (as end1an described)

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qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vmdk machine.qcow2 ~/Downloads/machine.vmdk

(for installing qemu - https://www.qemu.org/download/#macos - I used homebrew - https://brew.sh)
2. I changed the machine.vmdk to machine.zip and extracted it (also with keka - https://www.keka.io/en/)

3. i installed xampp 7.4.16 for macOS with the installer (not vm)
4. I copied my projects from the old restored /opt/lampp/htdocs folder to the new one /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs
5. I copied my projects database folders + phpmyadmin from the old restored /opt/lampp/var/mysql/ folder to the new one /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql
6. i copied ibdata1, ib_logfile0, ib_logfile1 from the old restored /opt/lampp/var/mysql/ folder to the new one /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql
7. i copied db.myd, db.myi, db.frm and proc.myd, proc.myi, proc.frm from the old restored /opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql/ folder to the new one /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql/ (I'm not sure if this step is a must, but I did it...)
8. i fixed the file/folder permissions/rights for the files I copied to mysql or mysql/mysql to the same like the others in these folders with the terminal (for changes I used sudo chown -R _mysql [file or folder], sudo chgrp -R _mysql [file or folder], sudo chmod -R 770 [file or folder] and ls -l for listing) - be carful by changing rights

after restarting mysql it worked (before I used a err log file to see why the mysql server didn't start /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql/usersname-macbookname.local.err) ... some project Wordpress settings are lost (I don't no why, but nothing important for me) and the link to the localhost is now localhost without port :8080 ...

AT LEAST I've got all my databases, files, folders etc - good luck

some more links I used:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29258769/how-to-restore-mysql-database-in-xampp
https://superuser.com/questions/1328965/how-to-restore-mysql-database-using-files-on-data-folder
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38759870/xampp-mysql-table-doesnt-exist-in-engine-1932/44799226

Thanks for the solution. It really works

[G-Day]

Please HELP!

INFO: Starting "XAMPP" stack
ERROR: Error starting "XAMPP" stack: cannot calculate MAC address: hv_vm_create unknown error -85377023

How can I retrieve my files? Please HELP!