I am looking for a very low intensity linux for running multiple virtual machines. What distribution should I look at. I am also wanting to run steam for a while.
With a low resource system such as mine, I use AntiX Linux.
It will work from PII with embedded 64Mb memory to the newest machines. And uses less resources than ubuntu. And way faster.
Go check out YouTube for a search for AntiX and watch the installation video by run with the dolphin.