unable to create Solr collection / index

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I am facing the same issue when creating SOLR collection in my quickstart VM (error below) -

solrctl collection --create findrcoll -s 1
Error: can't discover Solr URI. Please specify it explicitly via --solr.

I also verified that solr server daemon is running. I am not using Cloudera Manager in my VM.
[cloudera@quickstart findrcoll]$ sudo service solr-server status
Solr server daemon is running                              [  OK  ]

Any help is appreciated. Thanks