Re: Problem compiling VMware Tools with TSL 305 in ESX3?

Yes.
make modules_prepare is not done really well, and with SMP machines it
doesn't add the "smp" extension where is needed. I've written about
this issue some time ago in the trustix wiki (search for vmware server
in the wiki, I've written how to prepare kernel both for UP and SMP
machines).

I would:
1) remove the UP kernel
2) re-prepare kernel sources
3) fix utsrelease.h