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>> on real hardware, with hardware watchdog, it does the right thing, panics and reboots,
>> but on vmware, it enters the debugger, and ‘cont’ will resume.
>> the kernel in both cases(it’s the same) has option KDB and ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER
>>
>> so how can I get the vm to reboot?
>
> debug.debugger_on_panic=0 in the /boot/loader.conf and/or options KDB_UNATTENDED in the kernel config.

Hmm, no - in case of watchdog, only kernel options KDB_UNATTENDED will help,
debug.debugger_on_panic will not.