For anyone like me trying to follow the tutorial using a debian template instead of a fedora template and hitting a brick wall (e.g. State 'qvm.vm' was not found in SLS 'salty'):
tl;dr user_salt is bugged with debian-13 
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4.2: user_salt isn't working 路 Issue #8491 路 QubesOS/qubes-issues 路 GitHub (closed but what happens is exactly what is described there)