Patent ID: 7877526

Claim:
A data processing system comprising a processing unit on which a control program runs, a plurality of operating systems (OS's)configured to run under control of said control program, a Peripheral Component Interchange (PCI) bus coupled to the processing unit, and a channel adaptor for data transmission/reception, wherein: the channel adaptor is coupled to the PCI bus on a PCI bus side of the channel adapter, and the channel adapter includes only one connecting port on an input/output (I/O) side of the channel adapter; an input/output process is executed between each OS and said channel adaptor by using input/output process control data specifying input/output (I/O) data each having an identifier; configuration information is provided, defining the identifier of said input/output process control data which is usable by each respective OS; said channel adaptor configured to process a plurality of input/output process control data; and each OS uses said input/output process control data corresponding to a usable identifier and defined in said configuration information, and thereby a plurality of OS's control input/output process control data having different identifiers relative to said channel adaptor to execute the input/output process.