A trusted platform module installed into your motherboard will enable the latest security features of Windows 11 and other hardware-based encryption. Here's how to install a TPM once ...

If you do not have TPM 2.0, you won’t be able to install it regardless unless you bypass the requirement — which is something I wouldn’t personally recommend.

Learn how to add or enable TPM 2.0 in VMware Player virtual machine. Enable TPM and install Windows 11 on VMware virtual machine.

Also, TPM 2.0 remains an important security feature that powers some of Windows 11's security features, so if you’re installing Windows 11 on a non-TPM 2.0 chip, you will miss out on all of them.