Deploying a VM Guest within enterprise manager cloud control

Hi,
I have setup cloud control 12C completely, but when I try deploying a VM, the job remains in scheduled status with no progress.
i can create and install VM with OVM manager without any problem.
I have tryed this with OVM manager 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 none of them worked.
any idea

Yes, you can install Oracle VM Manager, create a server pool with the one parent Oracle VM server in it, and then deploy the Oracle VM template in the pool. Once EM VM is up and running, you can register the same Oracle VM Manager with EM, to manage the pool.
In general, it is not recommended that you use the OVM server backend directly. But for bootstrapping the EM environment, you can also try the following:
Download the OVM Template on the Oracle VM server. From the OVM server terminal itself you can do "xm create" to spin a new virtual machine using the Oracle VM teamplate. Once the VM comes up, VNC into the VM and configure the EM OMS and agent.

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