Windows 10 Change laptop Windows 10 installation to a Windows 11 VM in absence of TPM 2.0 motherboard chip

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My physical laptop has Windows 10 Pro digital license (RETAIL) with UEFI boot, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD, I will not be able to upgrade it to Windows 11 because it lacks a physical TPM 2.0 chip. So I wonder if I could convert it to be a Hyper-V VM (using the Disk2vhd tool) and then upgrade that VM from Windows 10 Pro to 11 Pro (because one can enable TPM in the VM settings for a generation 2 machine). But what happens with licensing? I would be running my upgraded Windows 11 Pro VM on the Windows 10 Pro physical laptop of the same digital license. This would presumably create a licensing conflict

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