Change resolution in console, Arch on Virtualbox

Good evening everyone, I'm now use Arch on Virtualbox with EFI boot enabled, I boot without boot manager follow these instructions
When the guest completely install. I reboot and the resolution of the console quiet of large, about 1136x923, and want it smaller, but if i resize it it make bars beside, and i don't want it, the resolution of arch actually did not change. I just resize the window of virtualbox machine.
my question is how can i put parameters to change to resolution of arch in this command: ........."root=/dev/sda2 rw initrd=/initramfs-linux.img"....., sorry about my english, thanks in advanced.

It is my understanding that in virtualbox you cannot change the resolution of the console.

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