1. A method in a shared processor data processing system for coordinating error reporting for and resetting of a physical I/O adapter that supports virtualization, said method comprising: virtualizing said physical I/O adapter by generating a plurality of virtual I/O adapters that each represent a portion of said physical I/O adapter; assigning each one of said virtual I/O adapters to a different one of a plurality of client logical partitions; determining that said physical I/O adapter may have experienced an error; and in response to determining that said physical I/O adapter has experienced an error, notifying all of said plurality of client logical partitions about said error and coordinating a recovery of said physical I/O adapter among all of said plurality of client logical partitions.