How to resize virsh console serial console to be bigger than 80 columns by 24 lines

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Issue

  • When using virsh console to connect via serial to machines managed by libvirtd, console size is stuck at the standard 80x24. How can this be changed?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • libvirtd

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