Can't get xen hypervisor to boot in grub

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I’m trying to get xen hypervisor working with libvirt and virt-manager on my fedora 36 workstation.
But I can’t get the kernel with the xen module to boot properly.

In grub menu, selecting the automatically created entry for
Fedora, withXen 4.16.1 and Linux 5.17.13-300 or Linux 5.17.12-300 results the same…

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Selecting the Fedora, with Xen 4.16.1 and Linux 5.17.5-300 entry results in:

Loading Xen 4.16.1 ...
loading Linux 5.17.5-300.fc36.x86_64 ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...
Loading XSM policy ...
error: ../../grub-core/fs/fshelp.c:257:file '/xenpolicy-4.16.1' not found.

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Hi Aman,

I hope you are trying to install Xen by their official guide/steps[1]. If not do that, and if you still face the same issue the directly contact @myoung, because very few people are using Xen on fedora, and if any user wanted to use Xen then they go for Qubes OS(based on Fedora 32), That’s the easy way to use Xen.

[1] Fedora Host Installation - Xen

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