I incidentally have a Debian 11 VM ready on Virtualbox, with GNOME GUI. It does not have an emulator or any other bloat application on it. Yes, I would appreciate the automated setup script being revived for it. Let me know if you need any bug fixes in the script because I'd be happy to help.
Just tell me how much storage space does the setup script require (including temporary storage) because this VM was created a while ago with a crazy partition layout and I only have 2GB storage free on the root filesystem. So I want to know whether it will work with that little space or if it even works on newer Debian so I can make a new installation if needed.
Once I have time I can look into it again, but it has been a few years, so I don't remember how much it space it uses.
But just to make it clear, as I mentioned earlier, I don't see many advantages of running AirGap Vault in a VM. The distro we made isn't supposed to be run as a VM, but rather on a dedicated computer that doesn't have an operating system installed. Our AirGap distro will be the operating system on that system. Once you boot, it boots directly into AirGap Vault and has no other functionality and does not use any persistent storage.
The VM is only intended for testing the installation script, since I have no bare metal lying around for testing purposes.