QEMU and SOUND: What's missing here?

This topic has been touched on before, but no definitive answer seems to have come up.  Various people have had consistant problems with getting their audio working within QEMU while running Arch as the host.  My research has lead me to believe that a functional .asoundrc file in the home folder of the user running QEMU is necessary.  Can anyone confirm this?  Also, how does this affect those using PulseAudio (such as myself)?  This issue has been lingering for years without a viable solution, and I'm ready to see one! 
I hadn't thought about it, since I usually use QEMU for purposes that never require sound, but I'm running into issues with sound and a game that is not yet in the repos or AUR and figured I'd try running it within QEMU with ALSA so I don't have to destroy my PA setup in order to revert to ALSA on my host system and test sound for this game.  So I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place and not sure which direction to go at this point.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated and I'm sure that everyone out there looking to have this issue dealt with in Arch, but not sure how to ask (or haven't gotten around to asking) in a different way than what's been brought up so far would love a difinitive answer just as much as I would... so ANY help would be great and I sincerely HOPE we are able to pool our resources together and fix this issue.  I'm just not sure what a fully functional .asoundrc file looks like at this point (especially one that is able to not interfere with a pulseaudio install)...

I've tested KDE, LXDE and XFCE on my systems with alsa default settings and had no sound problems with qemu.
What WM/DE do/did you use on he distros Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, or Unity Linux you tested and on archlinux ?
Do those other distros have a asound.rc in the users home folders and have you tried that asound.rc on archlinux ?
Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2012-03-28 10:05:07)

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