When booting my system with Intel processors using Xen kernel, I get the an error message regarding the module "microcode" during the system start up. What does that mean?

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The error is Applying Intel Microcode update: FATAL: Module microcode not found. ERROR: Module microcode does not exist in /proc/modules" [FAILED].

This message comes from the /etc/init.d/microcode_ctl init script while running modprobe microcode to load Intel CPU (IA-32) Microcode Update Driver to the kernel. On a stock Red Hat Enterprise Linux ke...

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