In Qubes OS it's often the case that the user doesn't have enough
RAM to start the conversion. In this case it raises BrokenPipeException
and exits with code 126.
It didn't seem possible to distinguish this kind of failure to one
where the user has misconfigured qrexec policies.
NOTE: this approach is not ideal UX-wise. After the first doc failing
the next one will also try and fail. Upon first failure we should
inform the user that they need to close some programs or qubes.
Because the server also checks the MAX_PAGES limit, the test in base
would hide the fact that the client is not enforcing the limit. This
ensures that's not the case.
When the pages in containers are streamed (#443), then this test should
be in base.py.
Theoretically the max pages would be 65536 (2byte unsigned int.
However this limit is much higher than practical documents have
and larger ones can lead to unforseen problems, for example RAM
limitations.
We thus opted to use a lower limit of 10K. The limit must be
detected client-side, given that the server is distrusted. However
we also check it in the server, just as a fail-early mechanism.
Isolation provider tests done in tests/test_base.py and had
pytest.mark.parameterize() for each isolation provider. This logic
would not work well when we had test that diverge. We could have marked
each one as compatible with one provider or another, but in the end it
turned out to be better to have the common ones in a base class and
the divergent ones in each.
NOTE: this has a strange side-effect: inherited test classes need to
have imports for all of the fixtures even if they are not explictly used
