Unable to change power state: Transport (VMDB) error -14: Pipe connection has been broken

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"Unable to change virtual machine power state: Transport (VMDB) error -14: Pipe connection has been broken."

I'm getting the above error after turning on TPM in my Linux host.

$ uname -rm
5.15.0-30-generic x86_64

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy

Here is the piece of the log that shows the beginning of the trouble:

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2022-05-23T03:25:15.116Z In(05) vmx MStat: Creating Stat vm.uptime
2022-05-23T03:25:15.116Z In(05) vmx MStat: Creating Stat vm.suspendTime
2022-05-23T03:25:15.116Z In(05) vmx MStat: Creating Stat vm.powerOnTimeStamp
2022-05-23T03:25:15.116Z In(05) vmx VMXAIOMGR: Using: simple=Generic
2022-05-23T03:25:15.116Z In(05) vmx WORKER: Creating new group with maxThreads=1 (3)
2022-05-23T03:25:15Z[+0.000] Wa(03) vmx Caught signal 7 -- tid 40820 (addr 7F12ABA043E0)
2022-05-23T03:25:15Z[+0.000] In(05) vmx SIGNAL: rip 0x5636229f0a82 rsp 0x7ffc8fb739d8 rbp 0x0
2022-05-23T03:25:15Z[+0.000] In(05) vmx SIGNAL: rax 0x0 rbx 0x56362484d090 rcx 0x5636230dc6cc rdx 0x5636230e76f2 rsi 0x7cc rdi 0x7f12aba043e0
2022-05-23T03:25:15Z[+0.000] In(05) vmx r8 0xf9c61de7 r9 0x56362484d090 r10 0x563623ac0da8 r11 0x5636230e76f2 r12 0x563623711fa0 r13 0xaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab r14 0x5636225a4d90 r15 0x5636237127b0
2022-05-23T03:25:15Z[+0.000] In(05) vmx SIGNAL: stack 7FFC8FB739D8 : 0x00005636229...

Any way to fix it please?

PS. I turned on TPM because of the following, 

https://www.minitool.com/news/this-pc-cant-run-windows-11-on-vmware-workstation.html

PPS. My Mware is:

VMware-Workstation-Full-16.2.3-19376536.x86_64

please help. thx.